Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman has decided, somewhat belatedly, that he doesn't like the Chinese Communists. The President expressed his views recently when Acheson suggested that U.S. warships join British warships in breaking the Chinese Nationalist blockade of Communist ports, which interferes with Western trade. Said the President: let the Nationalists first see if they can make their blockade stick. Furthermore, let the Communists prove they can control China or gain the support of the Chinese people...
...child of the people should have returned to the People's Army," cried Radio Warsaw. "He has returned to his native city where he was brought up, to the Poniatowski Bridge which he helped build in 1913, to the Polish working class with whom he undertook his first fighting steps and with whom he shared a prison cell...
...Boss. "Beedle," Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff during the war, went to Moscow as ambassador in March 1946, came home this year (and became commander of the U.S. First Army). In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo...
...first interview with Stalin, Smith put the question bluntly: " 'How far is Russia going to go?' Looking directly at me, Stalin replied, 'We're not going much further.' " That was in 1946, before the Communists swallowed Czechoslovakia and most of China...
Prince Charles, quietly celebrating his first birthday at Clarence House, had his accomplishments summed up for him by the British press, which unbent to the point of talking a little baby talk. The royal child weighs 25 Ibs., is tall for his age, has six teeth, already has taken his first steps, and has had his name put down for the Grenadier Guards. Only available quotes-considered adequate by most Britons-as his 40-lb. birthday cake was cut: "Papa...