Word: renderings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of personal loss, the impulse to render homage were universal. From the St. Lawrence to the Amazon, across Europe and the Middle East, to the Orient and the Antipodes, the leaders had known Franklin Roosevelt at firsthand. In Ottawa William Lyon Mackenzie King expressed Canada's feeling: it is "as if one of our very own had passed away." South Africa's great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves...
...sudden death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at this moment in our history is a world tragedy of such magnitude as to render trivial all conventional expressions of grief and homage. Friends of freedom in all countries must respond to this challenge given them by fate and insure by their efforts the realization of his aims...
...affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the civil power...
...A.B.A., Hemingway advised bankers to think in world terms. Said he: "How can the world be restored except by use of money and credit in a way that has never been dreamed of before-generously and wisely. As a great creditor, the national responsibility of the U.S. is to render this service to mankind...
...long-term basis at low interest. What would she give in exchange? The graves of her heroic dead? If so, it was no deal, since bargains are made for the future, not for the past. A just and durable peace? If so, how did Russia propose to render it just...