Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, McCloy, who has good reasons for hating the worst and loving the best of Germany, is getting ready to go back there as U.S. High Commissioner, the civilian successor to General Lucius D. Clay. McCloy will have to negotiate (which is what he does best) with the French, the British and the Russians, but his main job will be to bear a heavy share of the responsibility for suppressing the worst in the Germans, drawing out the best. For this people have the greatest capacity for good & evil in Europe, and the future of the world may turn...
...people can be pushed, to hold out in good humor but dogged firmness through protracted debate. He has a flair for the right word in a tight spot. On Kwajalein after V-J day, an audience of G.I.'s greeted him with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet...
...dropped his passport (No. 206,501) on the reception desk, wheeled abruptly and left the building. Attached to the passport was a letter. It read: "I, James Miller Robinson . . . renounce my citizenship to the United States of America." Defiantly, Robinson later told reporters : "I'd rather die than go home and shine shoes...
...prospect, which included declining exports, talk of devaluing the pound, and growing pressure on Labor's "full-employment" dikes. But as the cabinet held another emergency meeting to deal with wildcat strikers, the strikers themselves showed signs of coming to heel. In Liverpool 8,000 dockers voted to go back to work. For the fifth successive Sunday, striking locomotive crews dislocated rail traffic; but the stoppage was less severe than on previous weekends, for some crews worked in defiance of the strike leaders' pleas...
...Go Away." Last week TIME Correspondent Sam Welles toured South Korea and got a net impression of hope-hope in the midst of danger from within and without, from Right and from Left. His report...