Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese are not being treated with brutality, but every step provided by the surrender terms, no matter how harsh, is being enforced. Their humiliation, their despair, and the hardships which they face cannot be overestimated...
...second floor of Mexico City's Supreme Court building, the harsh hand of José Clemente Orozco, famed Mexican muralist, could be seen all over the walls. Artists liked what they saw, but several Supreme Court Justices did not: they were angered by an Orozco panel showing blindfolded Justice in a compromising position (see cut). They demanded that the murals be removed...
...utmost restraint must be exercised ... in all comments on the American situation at this time." Then Winston Churchill proceeded to comment: "I cannot believe that this is the last word of the United States. I cannot believe that so great a country . . . would proceed in such a rough and harsh manner...
Rough and harsh as the decision may have seemed to Britons (and to some U.S. worriers), it was apparently the last word on Lend-Lease. Harry Truman had long been on record that it would end when hostilities ended; that was the law's language-as official Britain well knew. Well did Britain also know that the machinery for continuing U.S. foreign aid had been set up in the Import-Export Bank (see BUSINESS). Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration was geared to make such loans effective in less than 24 hours...
...would like the privilege of replying to Sergeant Bundenthal's eulogy on the beauty of German women as contrasted with his harsh criticism of other European women and American girls [TIME, July...