Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope, man's fate contested in the subtle autumn light. Winter stood just at the shoulder of the gentlest of seasons...
Right v. Right. As always, the fate of Jews and Arabs alike would be decided elsewhere...
Barbed Wire. In Washington he released a dynamitic report from former U.S. Immigration Commissioner Earl G. Harrison, whom he had sent to the Continent last June to investigate the fate of displaced refugees, particularly Jews. Harrison's report pulled no punches. He charged that displaced Jews are being held in unsanitary, barbed-wire camps, wearing hideous concentration-camp garb or German SS uniforms, with nothing being done for them by way of rehabilitation. Their guards are U.S. troops...
...Council's and the King's Crown Advisory Committee's, infringement of its independence: "An intolerable situation has arisen. A willful attempt by Emergency Council is being made to grasp the reins of Spectator editorial policy so tightly that Spectator will never again be the master of its own fate.... The entire Spectator staff, Managing Board, and Associate News Board, bitterly protest this action. No one, neither the Council nor a committee of King's Crown Advisory Board has a right to approve of Spectator's editorial policy in advance. If this is allowed to occur, it will...
...Allied side. Hitler allowed the British Army to escape at Dunkirk by personally ordering the attack on Paris. It was Hitler who failed to take Moscow in August 1942, by ordering all eastern reserves into the Ukraine. He had a mystical fear of Moscow because of Napoleon's fate. The Führer, according to Halder, thought he could crush the Russians by taking Stalingrad and Leningrad, because they were named for the two most venerated Bolshevist leaders...