Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That sounded like a new note of British resolution. How much Russian pressure would peaceful Britain stand? Four points seemed certain; Britain will not: 1) abandon Iran to Russia; 2) admit Russia to dominance in the southern or western Mediterranean; 3) waive her right to a western European grouping; 4) peacefully Accept any Russian move which directly weakens her Empire position...
...served to prove what everybody knew: that Franco was an Axis stooge. Spaniards, sick of civil war, were not going to rise against him because of the U.S. disclosures. The question was: what were the Allied governments going to do about it? France, Britain and the U.S. issued a note expressing hope that "patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards" may soon find the means to bring about "a peaceful withdrawal of Franco, the abolition of Falange, the establishment of an interim or caretaker government. . . ." Beyond that, there was only a vague threat to sever diplomatic relations, a promise that "there...
...wonder boy, enjoyed a week befitting his prestige. He won the first Wendell Willkie Award-a trip around the world, sponsored by Freedom House and the Common Council for American Unity. Skipping lightly over all other U.S. writers and artists, the two organizations thought Corwin's On a Note of Triumph and other writings the best "contributions [of 1945] to the concept of One World, in the field of mass communication...
...free hand, lets him publish his scripts in book form. But the reaction has set in. He has been savagely lampooned by Radio Wit Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11). Some call him the "poor man's MacLeish." Assessing his V-E day's On a Note of Triumph, Critic Bernard DeVoto, who rarely likes anything, wrote in Harper...
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