Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unanswerable Black Record, are at one with the viler elements of our own Anglo-Saxon ruling classes, in wanting him to come to an end, before the liberating resentment and enlightenment, that follow the stresses of every great war, lead to actual world revolution. . . . He will never commit suicide-he hasn't the guts and our proper treatment of him, if we can catch him in time, is to certify him and put him away in a not too luxurious asylum for criminal lunatics. And forget about...
Winston Churchill, lately a leading player of Big-Power politics, had cannily declined to commit himself. Publicly, he had neither qualified nor abandoned Britain's belief that she must have the Commonwealth & Empire behind her in order to remain a Great Power. His sage old friend, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, came out last year for the strongest possible Commonwealth bloc, as a friendly offset to the U.S. and to "the new colossus," Russia. Last week Smuts kept his counsel about Commonwealth centralization. But when the news of a League plan leaked out, with it came...
...Allied airmen are prepared to protect invasion forces. They believe that Germany will have to commit all her hoarded air power almost immediately; that the real air knockout will probably follow swiftly...
...First Phase. So for the first few days, at least, fighting on the Gustav Line would be a job of battering the enemy, feeling him out, making him commit his reserves to the wrong place. Possibly not even General Alexander could yet tell where he would finally thrust his knife to rip up the spine of Italy...
...Peaceful People. In the 17th Century, Spanish friars and soldiers failed to convert the Lacandones, who still worship Mayan gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged...