Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas MacArthur, the man possessed by an idea, was still taking dead aim on the lost Philippines. Last week he moved 200 miles closer to his target...
...weeks the enemy inched closer to Loyang. But every day from the city's radio station a calm Chinese voice spoke of the firm will to resist. Men built barricades, fought behind them as the Japs drove into the 2,700-year-old city...
...that he master the complicated plan that was being fitted together for a pending operation. He did what I thought was an excellent job. Came the operation, and we were there in the grandstand seats. At times we even got onto the playing field. It was impossible to get closer! Roberts lived in, around, about and through that operation. He observed it first hand...
...Peter Fraser exclaimed: "I'm from Missouri," fell off the fence on Canada's side. Last week Mackenzie King, addressing both Houses of Parliament, did his best to bury centralization. Said he: ". . . In considering new methods of organization to bring the nations of the Commonwealth closer together, we can not be too careful to see that, to our own peoples, the new methods will not appear as an attempt to limit their freedom of decision or, to peoples outside the Commonwealth, as an attempt to establish a separate bloc. ... I am told that, some where, over the grave...
...King tied up his objections to Common wealth centralization with his general idea that big powers ought not to dominate the world, and that a strongly centralized Commonwealth would be too prone to play Big-Power politics. Precisely that idea seemed to prevail at the conference last week. A closer-to-home reason for his stand was his conviction that Canada must be in a position to go along with her big neighbor, the U.S., even when the U.S. goes against the British Commonwealth...