Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week when the first U.S. newsmen entered Hiroshima and Nagasaki and made plain to U.S. readers the appalling devastation of those cities, the State Department issued a formal report on atrocities committed by the Japanese. The timing was not missed by many readers...
...State Department report was a compilation of some 240 separate protests made to the enemy while the war raged. Behind the stiff, formal language was apparent the rage which must have gripped Secretaries Hull and Stettinius every time a new atrocity account came in. The Department had refrained from public outburst as long...
...China's greatest triumph -the formal surrender of the Japanese at Nanking (see INTERNATIONAL)-indefatigable Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek looked ahead. To his nation of 450,000,000 he proclaimed...
...week of formal triumph over Japan, few citizens had the inclination to read the story of the first U.S. defeat, three years and nine months ago. The very bulk of the documents (130,000 words) was forbidding. The New York Times printed it all and sat down. Congressmen, before they had read it through, shouted that it was a "whitewash" or that it was incomplete. Harry Truman said that it proved everyone was to blame...
Meanwhile, the Generalissimo carried on the business of his Government. He approved arrangements for the formal surrender of Japanese forces in China, to take place this week at Nanking. He appointed an old Kuomintang crony, General Hsiung Shih-hui, to take over Manchuria from the Red Army. He exchanged felicitations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the ratification of the new Sino-Russian treaty...