Word: reconstructional
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...troops were exchanging shots with Russians. But suddenly the Rumanians turned their guns on the Germans, and Hitler's largely Rumanian-manned southern flank gave way to a Red Army romp. Behind the historic switch was an historic conversation-of the sort novelists spend agonized years trying to reconstruct. But this dialogue had been carefully recorded on a talking disc by a boyish, gadget-loving King, and seldom had the most imaginative of novelists equaled it. Last week, as Rumania celebrated the third anniversary of Aug. 23, TIME Correspondent Robert Low dug out the record, cabled...
...foolish, the goal of world peace becomes the paramount aim to which effort and time must be directed. In this drive for peace the contribution of the United States is twofold. It must preserve a strong and healthy home economy and do all it can to support and reconstruct the economic and industrial systems of other nations who fared less well than this country in the course of the war, and it must support the United Nations to the hilt. The U.N. has not lived up to the high expectations with which it was founded; sometimes it resembles nothing more...
...sickening after each war to reconstruct the same old European crazy quilt. Of course this European unity must be entirely voluntary. Although its present divisions are killing it, Europe, the birthplace of Western civilization, does not wish to be-and must not be-"united" under any foreign ruler...
...still a long way from meeting in a solid clasp of friendship. But nowhere in Europe do so many fingers touch each other as at the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Institute. Founded last year (TIME, May 20) as part of a $6,000,000 program to reconstruct European religious life, the Institute is financed largely by U.S. church members.* It has already been in operation for six months, has sent 73 men & women back to their homelands with broader Christian perspectives and more international Christian ties...
...about 50 years old and living in Upper Bavaria, Hanfstaengl said he had "collaborated" with American diplomatic officials during the war and had been personally invited by the late President Roosevelt to help reconstruct the German press after...