Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sees at least an "Asiatic Federation of Nations," with the millions of India joined with the millions of China, to replace the broken rule of the white man in the Far East. Beyond that Nehru dreams and believes that an India, freed from "the perfect peace of the grave and the absolute safety of a cage," can take her place in a world order or world federation, welcoming the white man's science and know-how, friendly to Soviet Russia, a partner with the Anglo-American federation in bringing peace and order to the world...
...largely Christian Lebanon, where Moslems are mistrusted, the Fighting French had better, luck. Last week in Beirut they set up a new government under slight, grave-faced Maitre Sami Bey el Solb, who had fought the Turks in World War I side by side with T. E. Lawrence and King Feisal. Around him Premier el Solh gathered a strong Cabinet and prepared to hold a free election for the Presidency and Parliament. And in Cairo, Premier el Solh has another friend even more potent than Fighting Frenchman Catroux: Egypt's roving-eyed Premier, Nahas Pasha...
Port Moresby's 71 air raids have been singularly ineffective. Outside of the Air Corps not one American has been killed or wounded by Jap bombers or strafers-in fact, the only non-Air Corps grave in the American section of the military cemetery is that of a soldier killed in a truck accident. There have been some close calls. On two occasions slit trenches containing American anti-aircraft troops have had direct hits, but the bombs happened to fall in a non-inhabited part of the V-shaped trench...
...does not give up all its dead. Depth charges usually sink a U-boat without chance of survivors reaching the surface. Before each grave was heaped, FBI men examined every body carefully, made copious notes, preserved all papers and identification marks. When the war is over there will be a pitiful sheaf of dog-tags, letters and personal papers to send German relatives...
When, last week, his body was borne to the grave, thousands stood in the rain shouting: "Ortiz! We loved him! Long live democracy!" and demanding that the Castillo regime break with the Axis over the torpedoing of Argentine freighters...