Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generally been the American custom to assume a person innocent unless proven guilty. From all that I have read, Mr. Furtwängler was cleared by a court which I must assume had all the records, and it seems a pretty sorry business that a group of musicians high in box-office estimation feel that they know better...
...disaster on him, Scott let it be known that he had a secret weapon: recordings of telephone conversations during the campaign, in which many state leaders had been put on record as approving Dewey's campaign strategy. "Blackmail," cried his opponents. Said Scott, scrambling metaphors right & left: "Age must have its fling. The cliffhangers are making a last-ditch fight . . . My view is that the party has a choice of going back to Garfield or forward to victory." At 48, Hugh Scott was the youngest of the Republican committee brasshats and one of the few with a World...
...courtyard of my old home [Palazzo Colonna]; a shell had struck the wall just over the window of what had been my bedroom as a girl . . . I was told that the porter and the butler had been wounded." On the American occupation of Rome, the Duchess wrote: "I must pay tribute to the tact and courtesy of all Allied officers I met, from those of the highest rank down to the humblest lieutenants . . . not one of them ever made me wince...
...there could be no peace before the government had demonstrated its "sincerity" by handing over "war criminals" to the Communists: "Chiang Kai-shek is especially important. The said criminal has now fled and may very possibly go abroad to hide beneath the cloak of American and British imperialism. You must act swiftly to arrest this criminal." Chiang Kai-shek was staying in his native village of Fenghua, from which he had set out 43 years ago to fight for China's freedom...
...city rebellions failed bloodily. Moscow deposed Li as a "half-Trotskyite" and ordered him to Russia for corrective education. "Lilisanism" was declared incorrect by Moscow. Mao Tse-tung meanwhile formulated a simple but fateful strategy: in an industrially backward country whose whole life depended on the peasantry, the Communists must win the peasants first, and give them arms...