Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francis D. Fisher '48, I.A.C. Secretary at the same time urged students interested in helping to rebuild Italian villages and the French University of Caen to attend a meeting this evening at 8 o'clock in the Eliot House Junior Common Room, where they may file applications and discuss details of the project...
Under the direction of the International Student Service in Geneva, those accepted for the project will help rebuild Italian towns for four weeks and then will take a conducted tour of Italy, meeting with foreign student groups en route...
...mine more, but the coal itself doesn't do us any good. Part of it is exported to Lord knows where, and what should go to our industry doesn't-we're not allowed to produce all the things we need. Where is the stuff to rebuild our homes? Where are the clothes I need for myself and my wife and children...
...problem was how to keep Greece from going Communist. In immediate terms, that meant shoring up the stupid and reactionary Greek Government (TIME, Feb. 24) until a better, more democratic substitute could be found. Britain had poured over $250 million into Greece since Liberation. The money had gone to rebuild harbors, pay the Government's expenses and the maintenance of British forces. Since Britain could not pay, the U.S. must either do so or the Iron Curtain would be moved down to the Mediterranean...
Writing in answer to a letter from the Committee which asked how Harvard undergraduates might be of aid to Caen, the rector expressed the hope that students could come to Europe this summer to help rebuild the University. Almost destroyed on July 7, 1944, by the Allied advance, Caen is now holding classes again but, according to the rector, is in great need of new housing facilities and additional labor to erect them...