Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. Up until almost the very end, Washington was convinced that the attack would be made in the Far East. Curiously, in their war plans, Army & Navy officers envisaged with uncanny accuracy the type of attack which finally came to Hawaii. But from remarks made later on, it was plain that the military minds were only playing war games then. In their hearts they did not believe in their visions...
First to go home will be military personnel. Then will come administrative officials to take over from the Japanese-and bank notes to restore economy. Then essential Government employes, teachers and factory workers; lastly, the millions of plain civilians. But no one doubted that the humble refugees who somehow had found their way into the hinterland would somehow find a way out again...
Opposition Leader (and Britain's No. 1 Imperialist) Winston Churchill pressed the point: "May I presume that you recall that . . . the Government made it plain they did not contemplate modincation in the sovereignty of His Majesty's territories in the Far East...
Harry Truman obviously had more on his mind than the minor complaints of British newsmen. The same day, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes made it plain. Said Byrnes, eyeing the blacked-out Balkans: he would rather have free reporters watch the coming Balkan elections than any number of "official observers...
...also exciting-because the screen is so unaccustomed to plain talk-to see and hear the angry discussion of postwar prospects which Scripter Albert Maltz has written for the hospitalized marines. Effectively outspoken, too, is Lee Diamond's reminder, to Al, that blindness gives him no monopoly on job handicaps-that Diamond himself has been plentifully handicapped all his life because...