Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in countries like Yugoslavia, where UNRRA's local administration is relatively efficient, there were headaches for the Little Flower. The New York Post's Tom Healy wrote last week: "UNRRA has developed into a political instrument of great importance in the hands of Marshal Tito and his seven fellow Communists who rule Yugoslavia. . . . The people . . . seem unaware that the food which has kept them alive this year has come free from nations far away . . . from strongholds of democracy and capitalism. . . . Sometimes the food [is] displayed under beribboned pictures of Tito and Stalin. . . . Russia sends no food...
Continued Mo: "Whenever the Young Marshal stands by the lake, facing the serene watery expanse, he is lost in meditations. The endlessly concentric circles bring his thoughts back to many lovely things dead and perished long, long...
Solace of History. During ten years of internment the once uncouth Young Marshal has read nearly 200 books. This led him to "dialectical thinking on the evolution of things" and search for a solution to the nation's problems in the study of the nation's history...
When Mo brought back the news of Chang's interest in history, Chiang was delighted. He asked Mo to find a famous scholar who would instruct the Young Marshal and recommend more books. Mo complied. Now Chang is reading The Modern History of China, History of Indo-China, History of Manchuria, and (as a reminder that even the most vigorous dynasties must have an end) The Sad Tales of the End of the Ming Dynasty...
...Atom? Last week in Washington hearings opened on the $100,000,000 Neely-Pepper bill, which would marshal "the best cancer brains in the world" for an all-out war on the disease, in the same way that the Manhattan Project conquered the atom. Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U.S. Public Health .Service told a jampacked opening-day audience that there are not enough properly trained cancer researchers as yet even to begin such a program. Why not, he asked, use the existing facilities and experience of the National Cancer Institute as a nucleus for the research organization...