Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call on the President, but it was announced unofficially that Mrs. Truman would entertain him at tea at Blair House, along with other freshman members of the capital's diplomatic corps, as soon as the fall season opens. Presumably, Washington's Russian diplomats were already feeling the first hot flushes of Feldmanitis...
...Join the Communists." They were the first of 95,000 whom the Russians had promised to send home this year. Some 300,000 other Japanese P.W.s were still unaccounted for. What had happened to them was anybody's guess...
...spoke about their captivity in various ways. "The Russian treatment was on the whole good," some would say with jerky glances over their shoulders. "I say join the Communists in Japan, but I want to wait and see what conditions are really like first." At times, when one of the dyed-in-the-wool Communists passed, the voices would die to a murmur...
...They Never Told Us." Soviet indoctrination, however, did not shield all the 2,000 from the impact of home. Private Masaatsu Okada stammered: "My heart is full." Some wept. Recalling the bare grass mountains of Siberia, Toshiji Sugimoto choked: "When we first saw the bamboo forests this morning . . ." He broke off. "I just can't put it in words...
...Tshekedi prepared to leave the Bamangwato reserve for strange pastures in southern Bechuanaland, Seretse waited impatiently for his White Queen from London. But the British government would have to give approval first. "An extremely difficult problem," noted the Manchester Guardian. "Approval would scandalize . . . white South Africans . . . Rejection might irretrievably offend the [black] peoples . . . This is on its lesser scale a crisis comparable with the abdication of Edward VIII and its possible implications are almost unlimited...