Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same for British, Canadian, even Polish troops. One softly cursed: "Aye, we went through the blitz . . . but the Americans take the land." >Sergeant -Michael Pihosh, American, was acquitted of the murder of an ATS private who had been partly undressed, beaten after a drunken dance. The case heightened the concern of many Britons for their women.† Pride & Poverty. These items were significant only as symptoms of a state of mind. In recent months it has become increasingly obvious that the people of Britain are annoyed by the free-spending, free-loving, free-speaking U.S. troops. Worn by a long...
...oftener in daytime than Harry does. One big difference: Hopkins' after-dinner sessions with the President are almost always about war problems on which the President makes his own decisions next morning. Byrnes gets most of the big domestic problems to decide for himself. Aside from his concern about inflation, his associates say, the President is almost wholly immersed in the conduct...
Says the book's blurb: "In Bed We Cry is filled with the undercurrents of a world at war, but its primary concern is with the froth...
...Russia is not at war with Japan. That suits the Western Allies now; they have planned their strategy to beat Germany first, and want Russia to exert her full strength in the West. But the question of Russia's Pacific policy will become a matter of red-hot concern in the U.S. when Germany falls; every day that brings Hitler's doom nearer also brings the Pacific question more to the fore...
...tousled, persistent Socialist hammered down another plank in a platform which, he thinks, will insure Britain a secure place in the postwar world. His views were not necessarily those of the Government; rather, they were indicative of a wide section of British thinking. He spotlighted the deepening concern of all Britons over postwar bread & cheese...