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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years before, Franklin Roosevelt had kicked up a national uproar when he was quoted as placing the U.S. frontier on the Rhine. But this time Bradley made his point from the lesson of recent history. The invasion of Normandy, Bradley reminded his listeners, had cost 21,000 U.S. casualties in the first ten days. The North Atlantic Treaty was the surest way to save the U.S. from making another such bloody invasion. Said Bradley: "I don't believe any nation would attack such a combination of friendly countries...
...recent election, Local 600's President Tommy Thompson, lukewarm friend of Reuther, had been forced to ride the issue even harder. When Local 600 voted 30,000 to 4,000 to call the strike, Reuther's international board at first stalled on authorizing the strike...
...peace feelers, together with the Soviet backdown at Berlin, as a symptom of a general Red retrenchment in Europe, supposedly designed to free the Reds for allout action in Asia. Porphyrogenis himself seemed to support this view. "The atmosphere of appeasement," he said, "that has developed in recent weeks on the European scene makes peace [in Greece] seem possible...
...student body will also be asked for approval of Student Council's recent revisions in Annex voting methods...
While Tang advocates unadulterated communism for China, Reischauer has claimed in his most recent articles and books about China that it is impossible to superimpose such a system on the Chinese heritage...