Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before a Supreme Economic Council, charged with promoting China's reconstruction, the Generalissimo struck a significant, realistic note. He called upon his councilors to lean primarily upon China's own resources for China's revival. "Our problems cannot be entirely solved by aid from other nations. We must help ourselves. Our entire national future hinges on our ability to tap within ourselves the forces of constructive energy which are the key to the greatness of any people...
Some suspected that the Uruguayan note had originated in Spruille Braden's office. They were wrong. But the U.S. State Department was going all out to line up the lesser republics behind a forthright policy of intervention when & where intervention seemed necessary...
...object of 74-year-old Cordell Hull's wrath was the Army Investigating Board's Pearl Harbor report (TIME, Sept. 10). The report, branding his note to the Japs on Nov. 26, 1941 as an "ultimatum," had gone on to say: "It was the document that touched the button that started the war, as Ambassador Grew so aptly expressed...
From Washington went notes to Moscow and London, proposing that the armed forces of the Big Three be entirely with drawn from Iran by Jan. 1. The U.S. note contained an extraordinary paragraph reminding Moscow that small nations would trust the Big Five on UNO's Security Council only if the Big Five behaved themselves...
...Lost Weekend has its faults. Readers of the novel will note two outstanding ones: the necessary flatness of the flatly hopeful ending and the oversimplification of Don's reasons for drinking. But most of the picture is acted and directed with honesty. Ray Milland is convincing and often disturbing in his hangovers, his delir ium tremens, his melancholy. Weekend sustains its interest legitimately: it does not try to dazzle with highly polished studio tricks or with classical pretensions. By sticking strictly to its business - telling an interesting story in the straightest possible way - it becomes one of the year...