Word: documented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent his annual report to the President. This document told remarkably little about the Army. But Secretary Woodring did get at the main difference between the U. S. Army as it traditionally has been in peacetime, and the Army as Commander in Chief Roosevelt wants it to be from now on. The old Army was a feeble amoeba, unfit even for its theoretical role as the core of a fighting force to be raised after war starts. What is now wanted is an Initial Protective Force (Regular Army plus National Guard), manned, equipped and ready to fight at the drop...
Probably the most debated point in postwar Soviet history was the "last testament" supposedly left by Lenin. Most salient point in the alleged document was a proposal to get rid of Stalin "because he is too crude." Stalinists have long denied its genuineness; best Trotskyist argument is that Stalin once quoted it and that Stalin once admitted: "Yes, I am rough, rough on those who roughly and faithlessly try to destroy the 'Communist Party...