Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupation policy in Japan was neither timid nor confused. Douglas Mac-Arthur knew what he was doing, and was prepared to insist that his critics did not. Most uncomfortable was the way Red Army General Kuzma Derevyanko found this out last week at a meeting of the Allied Council for Japan...
...announcing officially that this "Damoclean sword" would be kept especially from the U.S., etc. All this would throw our country into a state of alarm which would make the effect of the Pearl Harbor attack seem like a W.C.T.U. picnic. . . . There would be no reconversion- only armament. We would insist that Russia either share the secret or "destroy every atomic bomb, smash every facility for making another," before a basis of unity could be established and the U.N. fulfill its proper function...
Fiorello LaGuardia, the new boss of UNRRA, tried to do his bit. After busting protocol in Washington to hurry necessary grains to central Europe, he unloaded all his fiery wrath on those people who still insist on eating pie a la mode. Cried he: "Those people, why they simply have no hearts at all. Belly Americans, that's what they are. Fat, rich, gooey pastry in these times! What we need here is a pastry holiday...
...starved to death strew the roads. People eat grass roots and tree bark. . . . Troops are sucking the blood out of villagers. . . . Local officials are making their lives bitter. . . . What makes our hearts ache most is this: all China needs peace, without which we shall not survive. If ambitious persons insist on more adventures, we shall all perish...
...support the United Nations to the utmost." There was a feeble cheer, a few seconds of applause for this implicit answer to Winston Churchill's call for an Anglo-American fraternity of interests against Russia. The U.S. pledges its power behind the United Nations' "right to insist that the sovereignty and integrity of the Near and Middle East must not be threatened by coercion or penetration." No response from the crowd...