Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less than two months after the aircraft carrier Franklin had been hit off Kyushu by two Japanese bombs and turned into a floating inferno (TIME, May 28), the same fate befell her elder, more experienced sister, the Bunker Hill. The circumstances were astonishingly similar: the ship was at flight quarters (launching planes). The enemy aircraft dived through the Bunker Hill's own combat air patrol so suddenly that they could not be splashed by U.S. fighters...
...Liberals, three Labor Democrats, four Christian Democrats, one Independent. The Premier was also Minister of the Interior (in charge of the police). Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, Socialist leader, was Minister for the Constituent Assembly; a vociferous antimonarchist, he would organize the election that would decide the monarchy's fate. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was Minister of Justice, a strategic perch for supervising the purge. But it was a restive coalition...
...postpone issues which may have to be taken up before that conference is held. Among the immediate problems, the most pressing was Poland (see below). But the most important was Germany. Even with the Reich tumbled about their ears, Germans know that what happens to them decides the fate of Europe. Even in defeat they still hope that the conquerors will quarrel over what to do about Germany. First stone in a "just and durable peace" is the coordination of control policies toward Germany (see The Occupation...
...page book, Editor-translator Gisella Selden-Goth finecombed the German shelves in New York libraries and the Library of Congress. Said she: "If I had been able to use the libraries in Germany there would have been a great deal more. [If the Mendelssohn correspondence] . . . shared the fate of other spiritual products of Jewish origin ... no complete edition of his letters can ever be published...
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings and desperate...