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...Tentative Arrangements." At Yalta, Sherwood reminded his readers, F.D.R. was doing his utmost to enlist Russia's aid in the war against Japan (the atom bomb had not been finally developed). Stalin laid down his terms. In addition to Japanese-mandated southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Stalin wanted title to the Chinese ports of Dairen and Port Arthur, use of the Manchurian railways. Otherwise Stalin did not see how he could ever explain to his people why Russia was going to war against Japan...
...make the conjugation of highly irregular verbs more interesting, enlist "apt alliteration's artful aid" as follows...
...Effective convert-making requires systematic action," writes Jesuit Father John E. Odou, in explaining the organization called Convert Makers of America, of which he is director. Founded in 1944 to enlist the Catholic laity in proselytizing for their faith, the C.M.O.A. requires of its members that they correspond once a week with a priest-adviser on the problems and progress of their convert-making. "Trains, hotels, depots, beauty parlors are all crowded with potential converts," writes Father Odou. "That is why the slogan used by every C.M.O.A. is: 'Never let an opportunity slip...
Last week's Senate approval of a proposal to enlist 25,000 selected D.P.s in the U.S. Army called for no Legion, but for enlistment in regular Army organizations. It did provide for citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity...
During World War I, aged 17, he tried to enlist in the Belgian army, was caught by the Germans and interned. After the war, he took a law degree, successfully defended union leaders and Socialists. "He wins juries by sheer weight," said one Brussels judge. "They think such a big man can't be wrong." By 1933 he had become the leader of Socialism's extreme left wing, chiefly because there he found more opportunities than anywhere else. Said he: "It is not sufficient to be right, we also want to be victorious ... As for the majority...