Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Reader Paul Estle [TIME, April 5] has to say about an American Foreign Legion is not a bad idea. In fact, there were so many requests to join the U.S. Army that only last week the U.S. Legation in Luxembourg issued a statement that no one who is not a U.S. citizen can join the U.S. forces. Obviously there are candidates enough...
...Paul Estle seems to ignore that during World War II the European people fought against dictatorship as well in the front line as behind the lines...
From some impressed French laborers, U.S. commanders got a tip that there was gold stored in the mine. All the Germans in Merkers who had anything to do with the mine were rounded up, and one of them was the assistant director of the Berlin museums, Dr. Paul Rave. He told the Americans about the paintings, and accompanied the first Americans, led by Colonel Russell, to visit the mine...
...best-kept secrets in Washington was out-Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman's choice for deputy ECA administrator (salary: $17,500). After eliminating at least four of Hoffman's suggestions, President Truman nominated and sent to the Senate for confirmation the name of horsy, 68-year-old Howard Bruce, chairman of the board of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp...
Defense or Liberation? If war came, would the U.S. fight in Western Europe? The Europeans are uncertain about that. Harry Truman's St. Patrick's Day speech to Congress, which implied a promise of military help, was not enough for them. Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak appeared shortly in Washington and asked for a definite commitment. It was not forthcoming. Pundit Walter Lippmann and others noted that the U.S. could hardly help going to war if Russia attacked Western Europe, since U.S. troops east of the Rhine would have to be pushed aside first. But Europeans...