Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second Quebec Conference last week the story leaked out. Couture, 29, and Gernaey, 37, were awarded British Empire Medals for keeping the biggest secret of the war. Who had lost the D-day document, or what had happened to him, military authorities would...
Quoting from his sources, Pegler proceeded to detail and document his charge. Warren Delano, partner in the American firm of Russell & Co., "was one among American merchants who, with British merchants, were imprisoned by the Chinese in the walled-in area of Canton, the event which led to the so-called Opium War." The "vessels owned by ... Russell & Co. soon controlled the opium trade and became known as opium clippers." "Russell & Co.," was apparently "the only American . . . firm engaged in the traffic." Concluded Pegler: "Delano died in 1898, leaving a personal estate of $1,338,000. . . . When the President...
Common Sense has published a remarkable document - five letters exchanged between Mohandas K. Gandhi (then a political prisoner in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona) and India's Viceroy, Viscount Wavell. In his foreword Newsman Louis Fischer, who made the letters public, claimed that Gandhi's recent conciliatory proposal to Wavell for Indian independence (TIME, Aug. 28) was a "sequel" to this correspondence. That might or might not be true. But as historic and human documents, the letters were unique. Each of the correspondents was an arch-type-Gandhi of the saintly man turned political crusader...
...Alton W. Knappen-berger, 20, Nazi-slaying "one man army of Anzio"; and Ruth Eickhoff, 16, his home town sweetheart; in Red Hill, Pa. The Congressional Medal of Honor winner was told to "speak up" when applying for the license, later delayed the marriage ceremony by forgetting the document, had to run back...
...name was Hans David Ludwig Yorck and the date was Dec. 30, 1812. Prussia was an ally of Napoleon at the time. The treasonable document he signed became known as the Convention of Tauroggen after Prussia turned against the Corsican. With the Russian general sat a young Prussian aide, Karl von Clausewitz, author later on of the world's most famous book of military theory, On War. With Yorck sat a Major von Seydlitz. At first, there was talk of court-martial for Yorck, but when Prussia's War of Liberation against Napoleon began, he became a national...