Word: civilians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Besides military and civilian officials who have been unable to express their views publicly, the opposition includes prominent religious and educational leaders . . . [who] feel that the partition recommended by the General Assembly does violence to the rights of small nations and the self-determination of peoples as proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter. They believe it is far more dangerous for the United Nations to attempt to enforce an unjust solution than to look for another which could be just and workable...
Chess by the Fire. Even more ominous than the military disintegration, if possible, was the weakening of civilian support. Manchurian landlords who had fled from the Communists were going back now, to accept whatever land the Reds would let them have. Parties of students were slipping away to join the Reds. In Yunnan Province, peasants were rebelling against further conscription...
Doubleday had few answers. It said that the diaries had gone unrecognized in Berlin until they fell into the hands of a civilian military government employee. He had turned them over to Frank Earl Mason, a onetime Hearst executive and ex-vice president of NBC, now head of Fireside Press, a small Manhattan publishing house. Mason had turned them over to Doubleday to publish. When Alien Property Boss David Bazelon asked Mason to tell his story of the diaries, Mason replied that he was "too busy" to discuss it for a month...
Professor Friedrich, who has been working with the Herter Committee on Foreign Affairs in Washington, will aid General Clay in governmental problems facing the American zone of Germany. These are likely to be questions about implementation of the Marshall Plan, transfer of the American zone to civilian control on July 1, and the French zone merger, according to Professor Friedrich...
...affected the entire East, and New York City in particular. With thousands of New Yorkers heatless, Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered oilmen to put deliveries on a priority basis, giving first call to homes, apartment buildings and hotels. The Navy sent 40 of its tankers into civilian service and even dipped into its own oil reserves to relieve distress in some areas. The Commerce Department cut oil and gasoline exports...