Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This far-fetched description of the situation in the Ukraine told very little about what has happened or what will happen next. The advance may have exhausted the Russians, but not nearly so much as retreat exhausted the Germans. It was evident that the Russian conquests of General Mud could be only partly accounted for by superior technique. In part it was certainly traceable to the simple fact that the Russians had the morale of the winning side. While the Germans wearily struggled with the mud in retreat, the Russians went at their backbreaking, grimy effort with the enthusiasm...
...Then, pointedly snubbing De Gaulle once again, the President "revised" the plan by submitting a brand new one to London and the State Department. The rumored Roosevelt suggestion: When the U.S. and Britain invade France, let General Eisenhower make expedient little side deals with whatever French group or groups happen to be most handy. The underground organizations which have risked their necks for Gaullism may or may not be called upon to help put France back on her feet after the Germans are driven out. That will be up to the military to decide...
...called atrocities are bound to happen in any war, but the argument of subject is beyond the scope of the reviewer. The picture itself leaves one with the feeling of having been drawn and quartered and left for the vultures. Its action leaps from shadow to shadow with Japs interspersed. Its photography was technically well done but was over-emotional. All in all, it has an artificial flavor which makes it seem for fetched and childish...
...Year-Alben W. Barkley. Thank God, it can't happen here...
...component of incendiaries and planes, the Federal Government spilled out $515,000,000 to expand the infant industry. Last week, the Senate's wallet-watching Truman Committee ended a two-year probe of: 1) whether the U.S. got its money's worth; 2) what will happen to the new industry at war's end. Its report...