Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O. Political Action Committee's Jack Kroll, who liked the looks of William O. Douglas before the Democratic Convention, told a union convention in Milwaukee that President Truman "has a new look now, and I must say that the new look becomes...
What it boiled down to was this: a weak and divided Western Europe must insist on a helpless Germany, and until Gerrnany recovers Western Europe cannot recover. A strong Western Europe can face (and include) a revived Germany. The first alternative means a Russian victory in the next phase of East-West relations; the second means a Western victory...
Suppose, for example, that tomorrow the U.S., Britain and France should sit down with Russia to talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
...Jhelum front is a succession of giant hills which must be taken in turn. There are men on these hilltops who have been without baths and hot meals for three months, supplied by coolies who have to crawl up the mountain. On one 11,000-foot peak it takes a coolie 24 hours to carry up three mortar shells, and the wounded must be carried down on a man's back...
...must to all nations, the postwar problem of living within its means last week caught up with Mexico. Mexico's postwar hoard of $350 million in gold and foreign exchange had dwindled to $114 million. Furthermore, it was a state secret whether this was usable or whether it included the necessary backing for the nation's currency. Overnight, the peso, which for eight years had been exchangeable at 4.85 to the dollar, was cut adrift. In shops, the prices of imported goods which Mexico could no longer afford were boosted from...