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...deportation proceedings. Said Justice Douglas, in his best legalese: "Inference must be piled on inference to impute belief in Harry Bridges of the revolutionary aims of the groups whose aid and assistance he employed." Wrote Justice Murphy: "The record in this case will stand forever as a monument to man's intolerance...
...British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...
Under the Trees. Each obstacle underlined the necessity of success. One afternoon the delegates left their complexities on the tables, went over to the Muir Woods National Monument to dedicate a plaque to Franklin Roosevelt. As a shaft of sunlight struck through the interlaced redwood branches, Brazil's Leāo Velloso said hopefully that the Conference was building "on indestructible foundations, a civilization in which wars will be placed outside...
...Monument. But Berlin was a masterpiece in another way - the finished-canvas broad-brushed by Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov in 41 months of battling back from Moscow. In the dust and ashes of death, Berlin stood as a monument to the enormous sufferings and the monumental resolution of the Red Army, and imperturbable Marshal Zhukov had been the chief instrument of that Army's victory. Up from the darkest days before Moscow, up from the bloody pit of Stalingrad and the snows and mud and dust of the Ukraine and Poland, he now stood before Berlin...
...artillerymen, getting set to raze the monument, learned that it contained a handful of Allied prisoners. Two U.S. officers went up to parley with the German colonel. They had dinner with him, smoked his cigars. At 2 a.m. a white flag went up over the "Battle of the Nations" monument...