Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Hopkins, on a diplomat's day off during his mission to Moscow for President Truman (see U.S. AT WAR), visited the Bolshoi Theater Ballet school and ventured an esthetic judgment: "American women are pretty but Russian women are really beautiful...
Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's public-relations director, won the Army's Legion of Merit-but not for balling up the V-E day announcement. Said General Eisenhower: the "sound judgment constantly demonstrated by this officer reflected great credit upon the U.S. Army...
...press cheered. Actually, no great change of policy had been made. Against his own better judgment, Davis had simply announced a restrictive policy handed to him by SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Division. In effect, that policy stood: the press in Germany, whether imported or printed on the spot, would still be supervised "in a manner consistent with military security...
Leahy swings even more weight under the new President than he did under the man who appointed him to the job. F.D.R.'s was an assertive voice. Harry Truman knows his limitations and is more apt to defer to the judgment of the old seadog who has devoted his life to naval and military affairs. At meetings of the Chiefs of Staff Leahy is no mere observer. Among other things he is a useful moderator. Sandpaper is abrasive; but it also smooths...
...reopening of London's National Gallery last week, King, Queen and ordinary art lover saluted old friends as Rembrandt's Woman Bathing, Rubens' Judgment of Paris and Titian's Christ and Mary Magdalene. These and 47 other choice paintings were the first of the National Gallery's treasures to be returned to London from the 300-ft.-deep mountain caves near Blaenau Festiniog, Wales, where they had been stored since the blitz. What with shortages of transport, return of the entire collection will take about three months...