Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hans Fritzsche, No. 2 man to the late Joseph Goebbels in the Propaganda Ministry, whose plea that he was an errand boy to Goebbels apparently was believed by the court...
Said the Times in its lead editorial: ". . . The speech . . . was the perilously distorted caricature of what might have been a reasonable plea for two-way traffic in international cooperation...
Behind the plea was a core of heartrending statistics. At war's end, some six million Japanese soldiers and civilians had been stranded overseas. The U.S., Britain and China had repatriated four and a half million. The Russians still held one and a half million. Of these, 800,000 were veterans of the Kwantung Army, who had been captured by the Russians in Manchuria. Their whereabouts was a mystery...
...fact that these U.S. international moves were bright with danger had been fully considered and accepted. The London press questioned U.S. wisdom in following such a hard line and made a plea for caution. Echoed a shrewd and veteran Washington observer: "A policy of firmness may lead to peace, but it never has in the past...
...union's countermove was a plea to its members to "go underground" until the Missouri supreme court rules on the right of police to join a labor union...