Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world outside Western Europe, was gone. This chilling calamity was ponderously proclaimed last week in unusual fashion-by a 1,054-page State Department white paper, weighing three pounds and selling for $3. Gone beyond recall beneath the Red tide (the U.S. was told) was the whole great heartland of Asia: the millions who had suffered first and longest the Axis onslaught, who had survived to resume their old fight against the armies of Communism. Bidding this nation bitter farewell, the U.S. Government seemed perilously close to adding: good riddance...
...Frank Record." What had caused the disease and the disaster? The State Department's answer, said Dean Acheson, was "a frank record of an extremely complicated and most unhappy period in the life of a great country." The record, reviewing U.S. relations with China back to 1844, prefaced by a 15-page lawyer's brief by Acheson, and displaying some studied flourishes of erudition, added up to a savage indictment of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his regime. Acheson summarized...
Innocent Abroad. None of this seemed like proper preparation for life among the great, but when Harry Truman went to the White House, John Maragon hopped right in behind him. He was, it developed, a particular friend of the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. According to his own appraisal, he was also a great friend of the President, even had a White House pass (since revoked...
...progress was noisy. In Rome he got into a street argument with a U.S. Air Forces officer, Brig. General William L. Lee, and was slapped in the face for his pains. (The general was shortly reduced in rank.) In Athens Maragon announced himself as Harry Truman's great friend, waved a picture of himself and the President, and was finally ordered home as a nuisance...
...Heart of Texas. The microphone suddenly was silent. "The damned thing's dead," shouted the host, but he went on anyway. "Sam Rayburn is a great man; he has a heart as big as the state of Texas." Some big brass-Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Justice-to-be Tom Clark, Attorney General-to-be Howard McGrath -praised long and industriously the long and illustrious career of Texas' Sam Rayburn. Sam himself stood up to speak modestly of his past and express hope that "our ancient institutions of freedom could meet their new challenge...