Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said L'Epoque: "We see signs of a sudden and large improvement in international relations. We learn that the 'Big Three' have agreed on the veto rights, that we are now on the way 'to a solution of the Polish question' and lastly, in big print, that 'Russia is siding with the Anglo-Americans.' . . . International harmony returns with the decline of France and perhaps this decline was the price paid for it. We personally think that Iphigenia was not exactly in favor of being sacrificed and we are not so angelic...
...literary allusion that no Frenchman applied to the bluff of a weak France trying to carry out a strong-arm foreign policy was a line from Edmond Rostand's Chantecler: "Quand le paon n'est pas là, le dindon fait la roue-When the peacock is away, the turkey spreads his tail...
...only woman in the new House of Commons. She is the wife of a Saskatchewan farmer, mother of a 14-year-old daughter. A good campaigner, she defeated popular Ernest Edward Perley, Progressive Conservative incumbent, who was a three-time winner, and National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton...
Louise Macy Hopkins, pretty wife of Harry L. Hopkins ("American women are pretty, but Russian women are really beautiful"), reporting in Paris her own impressions of Russia during her Moscow visit with Harry, called Joseph Stalin "a complete charmer as soon as you get to know...
...problem of reconversion was posed by a strike of 45 workmen belonging to Detroit's Building Trades Council (A.F. of L.). They struck because Chrysler Corp. could not assure them that all machinery in the new building would be A.F. of L.-installed. The United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) had alreadypublicly insisted on doing all the coveted installation (tying in powerand cooling lines, etc.)-in other words, the auto workers should getthe jobs as well as the layoffs occasioned by reconversion...