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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lose the War." Navymen had said strategic "mass" bombing by the Air Force's B-36 was militarily unsound, even immoral. Bradley gave them a direct unequivocal reply. Strategic bombing, he said, "is our first-priority retaliatory weapon," and the B-36 is the best heavy bomber in the U.S. arsenal...
...River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better known by its first line: "East side, West side . . ." The song was being played at the insistence of U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie, who had decided that no national anthems would be played on this international celebration. His ruling was: either all 59 or none...
...tense silence the voting began. On the first ballot Yugoslavia got 37 votes, only two less than the necessary two-thirds majority. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Edward Kardelj and his colleagues, who sat pale and worried right behind the Russian delegation, began to relax a little. On the second ballot Yugoslavia was elected, with 39 votes. Czechoslovakia got 19 votes, with one abstention...
When World War I broke out, no one responded more fervently to the cause of France than pretty, earnest Kathleen Burke of London. First she raised $4,000,000 for Allied hospitals, then she went to France as a war nurse, was wounded at Verdun, gassed at Valenciennes, and made 18 Atlantic crossings during the height of the submarine peril. When the war was over, she had won a permanent place in the hearts of Frenchmen. They called her "The Angel of France...
...brought the Hales fresh cause for labor on behalf of France. They went to France in 1940, worked with French and other Allied relief officials until June, then returned to the U.S. and embarked on lecture tours to raise funds for war refugees. In April 1946 the Hales first heard how the Germans had treated the tiny Loire village of Maillé; because they suspected the villagers of hiding an English pilot, the Nazis had killed 124 men, women & children, then razed half of the dwellings. The Hales decided to "adopt" the village, spent more than $25,000 providing their...