Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The daily press reports that Colonel James H. Douglas Jr., who had been "under consideration" for appointment as U.S. member of the Allied Commission in Italy, is not taking the job. TIME [July 9] reported that he had accepted it. Did TIME err?
¶ All functions of the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission, which has an estimated six billion dollars in surplus property in Europe alone.
Lock Step. The faculty had been strengthened with topnotch men drafted from civilian colleges. In 1941 the Academy had gathered unto itself J. Buroughs Stokes, a young educator with a doctor's degree from Harvard, had given him a commission and made him Assistant Secretary of the Academic Board...
Something had to give. At week's end Mr. Byrnes announced the solution: the preliminary commission already proposed by the U.S. would meet shortly in Washington and set up a stronger commission for Tokyo. Participants: the Big Five, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, The Netherlands, the Philippines, possibly India.
All parties are for independence, nationalism, turning the Jap rascals out. Where they differ is on methodology, nationalizing industry, and on local issues. After years of political frustration there are few strong personalities. One is plump, man-of -good-will Woon Heung Lyuh (pronounced Yuh), 60, head of the provisional...