Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guadalcanal Diary" is a good film, probably the best war film that has appeared. That statement needs, no qualification. Twentieth Century Fox's picture is really almost a document of the forceful realities involved in taking the Solomon Islands. The heat, the sweat, the tenseness before the landing, the mud and rain, the enemy, and the death...
...France, all adding up to the suggestion that Marshal Pétain was fed up with Nazi Puppet Pierre Laval, and anxious to set himself aright with anti-Nazi Frenchmen and the Allies. Finally, a Geneva newspaper published the text of the speech Pétain never made-a document purporting to promulgate a return to democratic government. At week's end, an aurora borealis of rumors flamed from Vichy, Berlin, Madrid, Berne, Stockholm, French Africa: Pétain had abdicated, he remained in office; he lay stricken with heart disease, he was in good health; he was under...
...Nazi domination in Norway was snapping and crackling last week. One snap took the form of a document, The Church and the Transition Period, telling Norwegian Christians how to behave toward quislingites when the Nazis are driven out. The document is sponsored in the U.S. by the Norwegian Information Service. It is anonymous, but the Norwegian authors state that they have "questioned certain churchmen regarding their views...
...disposal of defeated enemies-also had the signature of China's Moscow Ambassador, Foo Ping-sheung. The texts carefully dissociated China from the war in Europe, Russia from the war with Japan. But the significant fact remained that the U.S.S.R. and China had signed a joint, wartime document...
...reading in the 18th-Century worthies. Henry Fielding and the "lousy parson," the Rev. Laurence Sterne. But what Wilbur Cross really gave the boys was a liberal education in the Connecticut spirit. That spirit lives and breathes throughout the octogenarian ex-Governor's autobiography, Connecticut Yankee, a lengthy document whose dry-sherry tang saves it from collapsing into garrulity...