Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visitors demonstrated that the U.S. is not only the economic and military leader of the world, but also the world's soapbox. To sell, to influence, to confuse, or to divide the U.S. people-those are among the driving forces in the world today...
Finnish Communists were busily echoing the Moscow propaganda. Busiest of all was Comrade Hertta Kuusinen, who last fall left her Communist husband, former Interior Minister Yrjö Leino, for his alleged Titoist leanings. Hertta is rapidly emerging as the leader of Finnish Communism. Washington guessed that Russia's propaganda offensive was designed chiefly to help Hertta and her comrades, tossed out of Finland's government last summer, to get back into power again...
...Republican leader called "the Fuhrer principle of Hitler's system, the centralism of Stalin's system, and the whole approach of ruthless domination and cold blooded liquidation of those with whom they differed, of the same cloth...
...British wartime leader asked for the orcation of a world instrument capable at least of giving to all its members Security against Aggression," but falled to make specific proposals toward this end. However, he mentioned the "brave and ardent support" felt on the Continent for the cause of a United Europe, and praised the United States as an example of "new-won supremacy that has not been used for self-aggrandizement but only for further sacrifice...
Recipient of the William N. Nichols Medal in 1940 for his work with poison gas, he was a leader in defense chemical research in both wars. Until his retirement in 1948, Lamb was the lecturer in Chemistry...