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...diaries will be published as a sort of a blog, with entries added daily, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote them. Running from 1938 through 1942, the diaries cover the early days of World War II as well as Orwell's travels in Morocco, where he recuperated from injuries he received in the Spanish Civil War. There's also a lot about chicken farming...
...Hollywood has yet to demonize China in the same way the news media have [Aug. 11]. However, one need only look at the parallels between negative news coverage and negative pop-culture depictions of Arabs and the Middle East during the past decade, or the Japanese during World War II, to see how closely one influences the other. The current political climate suggests China is next. It may be only a matter of time before the "delightful pandas" take on a more ominous form. Leila Cruz, Wheaton, Maryland...
...muddled. In the age of empire, imperial powers built up infrastructure to make their colonies more productive and get primary goods quickly to market: railways, ports and canals linked the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. In the wreckage left by World War II, the Bretton Woods institutions and the Marshall Plan were premised on the idea that economic development was the handmaiden to peace. More recently, charitable organizations (which have been playing a role in development for centuries) responded to humanitarian emergencies in the poor world that aroused public sentiment in the rich...
...until the Army Air Force began recruiting women pilots in 1940. As Tom Brokaw recounts in his book The Greatest Generation, her father said, "I didn't get to serve and I don't have any boys, so I guess you'll have to do it." During World War II, Ringenberg flew military planes across the U.S., ultimately logging some 40,000 hours...
...public appearance during his time in Hawaii: at a rally on Magic Island, a park peninsula between Honolulu and Waikiki, according to the Honolulu Advertiser. He has previously said he'd like to give a speech at Punchbowl National Cemetery, where his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, a World War II veteran, is interred, though the campaign hasn't disclosed yet if he will do so on this trip...