Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had changed his opinion since he returned from the isolation of Guam to the grim realities of Washington poli tics? He said that the integration of U.S. effort achieved in the closing days of the Pacific War had convinced him that everything would always be all right, even under the present divided setup...
...kidnapping scare swept Mexico City. Rumormongers said that Mexican ninos were being stolen wholesale and sold to wives of returning U.S. soldiers. In some unexplained fashion, the patter of little brown feet was supposed to make the returning husbands happy. Sober El Universal suspected a "premeditated effort to provoke state collective unrest." Many fingers pointed at Acción National and other anti-administration, anti-U.S. groups...
...Msgr. Henri Dutoit, Bishop of Arras. In 1941 a German D.N.B. dispatch quoted him as writing in a pastoral letter: "Collaboration is no slavery. ... He who collaborates should not be denied placing his own genius and his own resources at the disposal of the joint effort to enhance the value of this collaboration." Last fall, Bishop Dutoit was seized and sent to an internment camp. It was the first official action, after the liberation, against one of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. ¶ Msgr. Francois Auvity, Bishop of Mende. He recently apologized in a pastoral letter for having advised French youths...
...Communists were not likely to succeed, but the effort in the field increased their chances of partial success - or, at least, of survival - at the conference table in Chungking. They were bound to make the effort, and Chiang Kai-shek was duty-bound to forestall them where he could, fight them where he must...
...command took stern measures, but it could not change the basic fact which made for all the trouble: the discrepancy between the standard of living in Russia and in the rest of Europe. For centuries, Russia's standard has been lower, and still is, despite the gigantic Communist effort of the last two decades...