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...hoped to persuade the United Nations to let him incorporate mandated South-West Africa into his country. Africa's blacks, who regard the South African Government as the harshest of many oppressors, opposed the merger. (One of their spokesmen, Chief Tshekedi Khama of Bechuanaland, was prevented by the British from coming to New York.) Smuts's plan was also opposed by India, whose old case against South African discrimination was boiling again. Russia would use South Africa's record as propaganda among dependent peoples everywhere. Humanitarians who agree with Smuts when he talks of one world were...
...harshest critics conceded that it had done a creditable job of holding the line in wartime. Its best friends admitted that ever since the Administration had blithely abandoned most rationing and wage controls after war's end, OPA had been left hanging on a long and wobbly limb...
...beast spoke from the Brussels radio, as his troops fled the city, and his message was to Belgians. But for Germans who heard him, this was the harshest, strangest warning yet: "You [Belgians] will acclaim the Allied troops as they march through your streets. You will do that because you know that Britain has never lost the last battle...
...morning, Red tankmen chipped ice off the treads and gun barrels. Their breath was cotton-thick in the chill air; their polushubki (half-coats) were stiff with frost. The cold had come late. But now, in some sectors, this was the harshest winter in a century...
...this mujik was now a first-rate soldier. In the ruins of Stalingrad he acquired confidence and knowledge. At Kursk, he put the knowledge to its harshest test ("Myi Stalingradtsi," these men boasted, "We're from Stalingrad. We chased them"). The veterans of these two battles became the backbone of every active army...