Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jockeying for position, the warlords of the Far East waited for results from the war in the west. Upon the outcome of the attack on the heart of the British Empire depended the fate of millions of brown and yellow...
...indicate the nature of the final settlement they will impose on the biggest nation they have whipped to date. While they dictated new boundaries for the Balkans and slowly turned more & more heat on Great Britain, the Wiesbaden deliberations were deliberately prolonged and France was left to wait her fate. France had to wait, but by last week it had become plain that France's colonies did not. The colonial parade to the defiant standard of General Charles de Gaulle* was in full swing...
...would be drafted until after Election Day anyway. When Georgia's Edward Eugene ("Goober'') Cox exclaimed of the amendment: "To accept it would convince the people of this country that the membership of this House is only an aggregation of self-serving politicians," its fate in a House of 435 politicians was sealed. The amendment was adopted 185-to-155. More notable to many a Representative was the sight of Republican National Chairman Joe Martin-not the only Republican more isolationist than his Presidential candidate-striding up to the teller to vote for the amendment beside...
...last week was the Salvation Army. After dismissing its for eign officers, cutting off relations with British headquarters and abolishing all military titles, the Army changed its name to the "Salvation Body" so that it might "henceforth conform to genuine Japanese principles." Still hanging in the balance is the fate of other foreign missions in Japan (biggest are Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Congrega-tionalist), with some 700 U. S. missiona ries. But Japanese Protestants met twice last week to organize the Genuine Japan Christian Church, favored the severance of every foreign tie, fusion of all sects, Japanese supervision...
Since the outbreak of World War II, a hearty old Londoner named J. R. B. Branson has urged his countrymen to eat grass, save food supplies (TIME, July 1). Last week British papers published the sad fate of a zealous grass-eater, one John William Bloomfield, 60, of Harleston, Stowmarket, Suffolk. Despite the pleas of his wife, Bloomfield persisted in browsing on the village green. Finally, after stuffing himself, was taken with violent bellyache, was rushed to a hospital. He died soon afterward. Coroner's verdict: "death by misadventure...