Word: discordances
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President Roosevelt, King George VI, Harry Hopkins, General Marshall, and General de Gaulle appear on the scene. Butcher talked to most of them, and reports pretty tactfully on what they had to say. Sometimes there was discord ("After all, Allies are like families"): in November 1944, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery sent a letter suggesting that the Allied armies had suffered "a strategic reverse" and needed a "new plan"; this, says Butcher, "made Ike hot under the collar." Of the General Patton soldier-slapping, Butcher reports: "Ike is deeply concerned and has scarcely slept for several nights." One night at dinner...
...Discord. The solemn dedication to the "larger national cause" began to waver after the war. The shrewd, suave Moslem saw a shrewd, complexly simple Hindu, Mohandas Gandhi, step into the leadership of the nationalist Congress...
...Regency costume piece containing all the time-tested materials: a gypsy fortuneteller; a scowling, black-browed villain; a gushy diary kept by a doe-eyed girl named Clarissa who munches candied violets; a wavy-haired hero with beautiful strong teeth; a fire-breathing adventuress who dotes on discord and low-cut gowns...
...cheerful, still enormously popular with the people, by Washington's judgment he had failed since V-J day to exhibit the qualities of bold and imaginative leadership which the U.S. people always hope to get from their Presidents. He had notably failed to resolve either the domestic discord on the labor front or the international discord between the U.S.'s allies...
...national election day (Oct. 21), Frenchmen also will vote whether 1) to draft a new constitution, 2) to leave General de Gaulle in power in the interim. Some Frenchmen who oppose De Gaulle, whom the leftist Franc-Tireur recently cartooned as holding the "Apple of Discord" (see cut), are for a new constitution. In any case, if France votes as she did last week, General de Gaulle will remain at the head of the Government, supported by Bidault and Blum. Maurice Thorez' Communists and Edouard Herriot's Radical Socialists (who are neither radical nor socialist) will...