Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite frenzied attempts by the Arab world to clog the machinery of the United Nations, the General Assembly voted last Saturday to partition Palestine and give the Jewish people a homeland. The thirty-three-to-thirteen ballot brought truculent howls from the delegates of six Arab states and the threat of a Holy War to preserve the sacred sterility of Palestine's soil. With the passage of this first important legislative decree the United Nations reaches a vital turning point in its history...
...haired Magda Lupescu, her "death bed" marriage to him last July now made good & legal, sailed off to Europe after three years of exile in Mexico, three in Brazil. The ship was headed for Portugal, and they probably would not get much closer than that to their Communist-dominated homeland. The newlyweds would not exactly be roughing it: they were taking along a number of canaries, five dogs, two automobiles, 145 pieces of luggage...
Pound, University professor emeritus, will accompany Chao when he returns to his homeland this September and will take up advisory duties in the Department of Justice in Nanking. "He is very popular and well known in my country," said Chao, recalling that on the Professor's visit last summer he was an official guest at the villa of President Chiang Kai Shek...
...manpower reserves, Ike Eisenhower could guarantee a stalemate, at least, if war came now. Even though parts of Europe or Asia might be occupied, there is no strategic bombing force that can reach the U.S. and return-today. Meanwhile the U.S. could smack the enemy's homeland with atom bombs within 48 hours, order the Navy and Marines into action to seize advance bases from which to mount an aerial attack while the job of rebuilding the nation's war potential was begun...
They consider the irreducible minimum to be a ready, full-strength aerial spearhead of 70 groups (some 8,000 planes) able to carry the war to the enemy's homeland, blast his cities and industry, cut up his slow-moving land armies. Behind the spearhead: eleven fully equipped combat divisions (some 132,000 men) freed from routine chores and immediately available to seize advance bases and begin the clinching land assault. The total: an Army and Air Force of 1,070,000 men, supported in flank actions by the 500,000-man Navy and Marine Corps...