Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lend-lease Cigarets...
Alexander Knox and Geraldine Fitzgerald lend an earnest dignity to the roles of the President and Mrs. Wilson. Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Senator Cabot Lodges breathes into every line the chill of his stern conviction. With fire and authenticity of representation, Marcel Dalio delivers a masterful few minutes as Clemenceau. Thomas Mitchell plays Joe Tumulty, the fighting Irish politician, in the warm-hearted way that won him an Academy Award. Professor Holmes, one of the President's life-long friends, comes to life with subtle, inconspicuous appeal in Charles Coburn. In bluster and oratory, Thurston Hall enacts the political boss...
...paused in the attack just long enough to defend his Administration's preparations for war. His defense: the isolationist record of the Republicans in Congress who opposed Lend-Lease and other preparedness measures. He ridiculed Republicans who have changed their views, and said, while labor leaders applauded: "I am too old for that. I cannot talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time...
...knottier problems. Some of them: should France take part in the Pacific war? What of Rumanian peace terms (the Russians were waiting for an Anglo-American reply)? What if revolution hits Spain after Germany's collapse? What of the old, graveling question of Polish boundaries? What of postwar lend-lease to Britain? What-and this might not be too small an aside- of the U.S. election? And, finally, what of another conference with Stalin, who had sent a message saying that he was too busy with the war to come to this...
...Turned over to the Army and Lend-Lease: 11,000; lost in combat and noncombat operations, in training and through deterioration and obsolescence: some...