Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think it is bunk-which does not mean that the complaint may not be partly sincere. The Russians fancy themselves as conquerors. Among their Allies in Tokyo they shoulder their way in and seize every opportunity to throw their weight around. Their own idea of victory, as revealed in areas where they are in occupation, is to make blunt demands at the point of a gun. But their method is not necessarily tougher or more effective than MacArthur's. He is using a policy much admired by Adolf Hitler, who was hardly a softie: making a demand which...
...Gimbel's had no complaint; only 150 pens had been returned as faulty. And Reynolds bragged that it now has orders from 700 other stores...
However hale & hearty Stalin may have looked last week, he is not in good shape. On Dec. 31, the Generalissimo, Premier and Dictator of the Soviet Union will be 66. He has a liver complaint. Like his late friend Mr. Roosevelt, he suffers from recurrent colds. At least one responsible U.S. official who saw much of him at Potsdam got the impression that Stalin's heart was shaky...
Tabloid readers sighed with disappointment : they had been hoping to hear, in all its details and in several different versions, the story of what happened that June night in sedate New Canaan. Others, notably the family of Seaman Kovacs, had a more serious complaint. Imogene had said she fired in self-defense when Kovacs started to beat her. Kovacs' brother, who was sitting with him in a neighbor's house when Mrs. Stevens stormed in and told them to clear out, stuck to his story that she had fired without warning (TIME, July 9). Wasn...
Izvestia, in an editorial splashed across its front page, denounced the royal action as "not spontaneous." Charged Izvestia: the King acted under U.S. and British pressure, later admitted to the Soviet representatives that he had no complaint against the Groza Government. "Really," said Izvestia, "it was a straight case of the Allied representatives going to the King and telling him their governments would not recognize Rumania nor conclude a peace treaty unless the Groza Government was let out. . . ." London talked back just as toughly...