Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permit me to express the profound appreciation which I am sure is entertained by thousands of other TIME readers and subscribers for the lucid and concise report of the victory in Europe [TIME, May 14]. It is so utterly articulate that it ought to be made required reading for every school boy and girl studying the present period of world history now and in future years...
Wrote Comrade E. Zhukov of Izvestia: "Lovers of statistics declare that the amount of drinks consumed at journalistic cocktail parties are in direct proportion to the astronomical number of words transmitted from San Francisco. . . . Foreign journalists of progressive views-especially if they work for the so-called big press-express more radical views among their colleagues than they do in writing. This is not [their] fault. . . . It is the natural result of a system...
...Once upon a time there was an English religious weekly that ventured in its innocence to express its hope that an American President might be reelected. The comment led almost to an international incident. 'How dare a British paper try to influence the highly intelligent citizens of the great republic?' And in that cry against the impious, none was more loud than the isolationist press, Anglophobe and Russophobe...
Thoroughly angered, General Eisenhower this week announced: "My attention has been called to press reports of instances of senior United States officers treating captured Nazi and high German officials on a 'friendly enemy' basis. Any such incident has been in direct violation of my express and long-standing orders. Drastic measures have been set in motion. -... In the name of this great force and on my own. I regret these occurrences...
...criminals had yet to be announced, the U.S. named its chief counsel for the international tribunal that would handle the cases: Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, who opposes judicial proceedings to execute military or political policy, favors trial and punishment by military agencies set up for the express purpose...