Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phil Murray was just back from ten days in Florida, looking fitter than usual. The lines were gone from around his brown eyes and his firm mouth. Behind the big walnut desk in his green-walled office looking out on Washington's Jackson Place and the White House, he was every inch the boss...
Thereupon he threw open his campaign headquarters in Jackson's Royal Hotel, which gained his undying gratitude by extending credit when he was down on his luck in 1932. As one of 1946's first avowed candidates, he gladly spread his political philosophy on the record...
Thomas Mann, the greatest living German writer, is examining Germany's war guilt. He can do what neither Edmund Burke nor Nürnberg's Robert H. Jackson dared-indict a whole people. The evil that lay beneath the Wehrmacht, and the Nazi Party, and the factories, endures. The victors, who underestimated and misunderstood the evil, cannot extirpate it by battle, or military rule or reparations, or trial & punishment. They cannot even limit it until they understand it. So Thomas Mann, now a U.S. citizen, has written of "Germany and the Germans," in the current Yale Review...
...Arrogant Provincialism." Though his indictment is deeper and more damning than Jackson's, much of Mann's evidence against Germany conies from the experience of Thomas Mann, hunter and hunted, who scorns the unconscious Pharisaism of many German expatriates...
Last week Jackson was assured that there would be more stuff to send. The U.S. Congress, after sniffing suspiciously at UNRRA for long weeks, voted $550,000,000, completing the first U.S. contribution without which the agency would have folded by February...