Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second Burma campaign which was to vindicate Stilwell's military reputation. Chennault traces many of Stilwell's mistakes in his relations with the Chinese to his preoccupation with the reopening of the Burma Road, which Chennault believes was a nearly valueless objective. Actually, the damage was done before the first Burma campaign...
Recently a Greek correspondent asked Dwight Griswold, head of the AMAG (American Mission for Aid to Greece), what should be done if an international Communist brigade moved into Greece...
...tragedy of Palestine, past and to come, weighed on none more heavily than on old (73) Chaim Weizmann, who more than anyone else had been responsible for Zionism's success-if success it is. Weizmann, a great chemist, had done his once-beloved Britain a memorable service in World War I. He discovered a new method of producing acetone for munitions. Said Lloyd George cynically: "Acetone converted me to Zionism...
Weizmann, who would probably become president if the Zionists proclaim a Jewish state, talked to U.N., to Truman. He got nowhere, commented bitterly: "It took the British 25 years to sell us out; the Americans have done it in 2½ months...
...heated negotiations, the finishing touches were being put to a new $7,500,000 Export-Import Bank loan. That meant electric shovels, compressed-air drills and crushing plants for the Iron Mountain. It also meant further improvements on the railroad, new facilities at the port. With all that done, say in two years, Itabira hoped to reach its immediate target: a yearly output of 1,500,000 tons...