Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The committee had touched on a political incident (the Dewey letters). It had given away some military secrets (the code-breaking "Magic"). But more than anything else, it had disclosed the improvisations of U.S. foreign policy and how ill prepared the Army & Navy had been to back up the strong...
India was ready for a spark. Drought wrote a warning of famine across the country; Russia at UNO had fanned the winds of Asiatic nationalism. A trivial incident at Bombay touched off the British Empire's worst rebellion since the great Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.
Harshly repressed since the militarists clamped down during the "China Incident," labor unions and parties alike were flexing their muscles. Since the Americans landed there have been about 200 strikes in Japan. Most have been quiet affairs, without violence; all have been at least partly successful.
*A sidelight to an earlier Truman-Churchill meeting was disclosed last week. At Potsdam the President gave a dinner for Churchill and Joseph Stalin, arranged for Pianist Eugene List to present a Chopin recital. Winston Churchill listened glumly for an hour, then said: "Mr. President, why don't you...
The Bulletin recalls the world's outrage at the 1914 burning of Belgium's famed Louvain University Library-which resulted in a special clause in the Versailles treaty to compel the Germans to restock it. Amid the culture carnage of World War II, the second destruction of Louvain...