Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco materially alter Big Power control of the all-powerful Security Council, or make the new organization any less impotent to deal with disagreements among the Big Powers. At base, the charter is still a Big Power alliance. But there is this vital and heartening difference: the lesser powers now are parties to the alliance, and in minor respects may even press their views upon the controlling partners. And they have at hand machinery to build up their role and importance in the new United Nations...
...drab-colored command car, grinning and waving his thin brown hand, General Hodges rode through Atlanta's cheering streets. With him in the parade of cars rode eight other generals, 19 officers of lesser rank, 22 enlisted men, most of them Georgia boys, all grinning and gaping at the B-29s sweeping overhead (B-29s are a novelty to veterans of Europe...
Dumbarton Oaks, the Big Powers' draft of a world charter, rested on the premise that the way to keep the peace was to let the chief contestants make and administer the rules with a minimum of interference and assistance from lesser powers. After three weeks of world debate in San Francisco, this proposition was still intact. But it had undergone some severe strains...
These were not broken men, as the lesser men of Buchenwald and Dachau were broken. They were well clothed and mostly in good health. Toward the end their captors had had to curry favor with them. Most had been allowed to keep voluminous notebooks. Reynaud planned to write a book about his experience (including five months' solitary confinement at Oranienburg). Daladier intended to compose a history of World...
...Stern trial and punishment, not only of the top Nazis but to "extend down vertically into the population for a certain distance." To be executed: all high Nazi and Gestapo officials, Gauleiters, members of the Army High Command who helped to mistreat occupied countries, lesser officials who zealously carried out Nazi policies. To be imprisoned for life: all smaller fry who acted with "singular cruelty." To be interned, exiled or held in labor battalions: all incurable antidemocrats...