Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while ago, saying that he had not gotten true reports, that bad news had been withheld from him. This afternoon he said that he was losing confidence in the Waffen SS, for the first time. He had always counted on the Waffen SS as elite troops which would never fail him. Now he pointed out a series of reports which he declared were false...
...ready to compromise by making Trieste an international port. But Marshal Tito proposed that the international port should be under Yugoslav sovereignty. Liberal Count Carlo Sforza proposed that it should be under Italian sovereignty. Britain, with its New Zealanders quietly occupying Trieste harbor, said nothing. But London could scarcely fail to be aware that with a pro-Russian government newly established in Vienna (TIME, May 7) and a pro-Russian government in Belgrade, Trieste under Yugoslav sovereignty would be equivalent to a Russian port on the Adriatic...
...Enchanted Cottage" deserves a good notice. No reviewer who has urged realism and honesty upon a film industry plagued with artificialities can fail to wonder whether RKO has not pioneered the way toward artistic integrity--and the thought of artistic integrity on Hollywood is rather startling. "The Enchanted Cottage" is warm, unaffected, ingenuous realism--however much one may doubt that it is good entertainment...
This is only one example of things we can't fail to see and start to wonder about-especially when we hear radio pleas and read newspaper articles on how desperately the armed forces need nurses...
...have a job of work to do if we are not to fail those...