Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife and two sons. Jack Belden, veteran of the wars in China, Burma, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, celebrated Christmas Day in a New York hospital, recuperating from the leg wound he got at Salerno (this was his first Christmas in his own country in ten years). But I guess the TIME & LIFE people an American Christmas meant most to this year were Carl and Shelley Mydans-back in the U.S via the Gripsholm after two years as prisoners of the Japs...
...great stakes of influence in postwar Europe and Asia. But in 1943 Roosevelt's political control of the U.S. had been reduced to a lower margin than in any other year of his three terms. The nation endorsed his plans for war & peace (as far as they could guess them)-but not necessarily himself...
Another award awaits serious, hardworking General Holcomb: the Distinguished Service Medal, already authorized by the House and awaiting only Senate action. Another job also awaits General Holcomb, but that is still the Navy's well-kept secret. Best guess to date: a place among the Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Chennault knows that maggots breed within the great cities of Japan, and that the only place from which they may now be reached is China. But he smiles his hawk's smile and says: "I've been sitting here taking it for six years, and I guess I'll just keep taking it until I can give it back...
German Fear. Of the German people, Brita confirmed the impression brought out by many untainted neutrals: gloom, apathy, disillusion, but above all, desperate fear of what will happen if they lose the war. Her guess: The Germans will fight to the finish...