Word: langs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whitewashing the Army, was no help. Elmer Davis went through his routine of trying to see what he could do. But at week's end, over all the protests, the fact stood clear: the military was moving to dictate the interpretation of events. TIME'S Will Lang cabled from Anzio: "The press, which has campaigned since the war's beginning for rapid release of the worst as well as of the best news, has received a definite setback. The trend is to controlled censorship, to the Army's doctrine of its vested interest in the news...
...Orleans parents) which Bob Hope has put into a forthcoming book (7 Never Left Home). Wrote the soldier: "We were almost sure Frances Langford had not come, and there were many dis appointed people around. And all of a sudden Bob said: 'Here's Frances Lang-ford.' There was a din you would not be lieve. She was stunningly dressed, though simply. It was good to see a clean, neat American girl who spoke our language and thought like we do. She sang and sang from the bottom of her heart. . . . Every one of those thousands...
Times readers reached for their pens; wrote the Rev. L. F. Harvey, of Shrewsbury: "He [Lord Lang] would have made the matter clearer had he said 'even at the cost of the lives of British and Allied troops.' . . . Does the Archbishop wish to convey that he regards human life as of less value than a monument?" Wrote Poet Sir John Squire, former editor of the London Mercury: "The Reverend Gentleman seems to think that stones are stones and St. Peter's but an organized quarry instead of a crystallization of the human spirit, building ad majorem...
intend to bomb Rome? The deed, he warned, "would rankle in the memory of every good European as did Rome's destruction by the Goths." Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 56), 79-year-old retired Archbishop of Canterbury, seconded the Bishop. Lord Lang was distressed by a tendency to "exult and gloat" over the bombings of Germany. He feared that this attitude would result in "a lamentable lapse" in Britons' outlook...
Said Lord Lang: "Recent attacks upon cities like Hamburg, Frankfort and Berlin seem to me to go a long way beyond what hitherto has been the declared policy of the Government and the Bomber Command." Viscount Cranborne, Government lead er of the House of Lords, gave the prelates a firm reply. He denied that R.A.F. bombings were terror raids, told how last summer's flights over Hamburg had cost the Germans 400,000,000 man-hours, insisted that industrial life ceases only when "the whole life of the cities in which they are situated [is brought] to a standstill...