Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before the arrival of the recently-dispatched relief ship S. S. Friend Ship to Scotland, a deluge of mail has begun to pour in from the Scots, praising the "tremendous gesture of friendship shown by the people of New England," among them University students...
...picture recalls "Crime and Punishment." Just as Raskolnikofi was by nature generous, warm hearted, and high spirited, so Giuseppe and Pasquale are portrayed as human beings who are gradually twisted by poverty and the demoralized period in which they are caught. Their's is the simple morality of friendship that does not permit "squealing." But even that is swept away when Pasquale--thinking he would save Giuseppe from being whipped--tells that Giuseppe's brother was involved in black-market dealings...
...friend who was responsible for the Friendship Train, Drew Pearson...
...Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
...Solid Friendship. Arab leaders, united in opposition to Zionism, were not uniformly zealous in planning war. Iraq, Syria and Lebanon were for all-out war by League members and economic pressure on backers of the U.N. partition plan. But Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan advised caution. In his desert fortress-capital at Riyadh, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia said that reports that he would cancel U.S. oil concessions were "untrue and irresponsible." "Our friendship with the U.S. is solid and well established,'' said Ibn Saud. "We believe [the U.S.] made a mistake in the U.N. Palestine...