Word: oss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt-Hull policy toward Vichyfrance has been attacked with more fervor than it has been defended. This book is the most thorough and respectable defense the U.S. policy has had. William L. Langer, Harvard's Coolidge Professor of History and wartime chief of the OSS Research and Analysis Branch, concedes that U.S. Vichy policy may have been an unattractive long-shot gamble, but argues that it was "always substantially sound," judged by U.S. interests. And, he says, it paid...
Historian Langer has had access to such a wealth of unpublished material (State Department dispatches, OSS files, letters by Roosevelt, Hull, ex-Ambassador Leahy, et al.) that his book is of first importance in its field, even for those who do not share his outspoken conclusions...
During the war he went to Europe with the OSS. He admits he doesn't know "a damn thing about the Polish Government." But he knows about democracy. "Democracy survives on wellfed people and on good business," he booms...
...freelance gadgeteers. During World War II, the Kettering theory paid off handsomely. The Council received more than 200,000 notions. Most came from impractical dreamers, screwballs and ignorant well-wishers. But some 5,000 ideas were promising enough to be turned over to the armed services or the OSS. About 150 of these went into actual production; some 600 more are still in the testing stage. Some of the most successful: ¶The Army's portable mine detector, invented by a Miami electrician to help a neighbor find buried pirate gold. ¶A tank-driven mine detonator...
Cloak and Dagger--Gary Cooper's OSS drama, opening Thursday at the Paramount and Fenway...