Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Ministry of Justice in Nanking, also tried to clear up some misapprehensions about China. Wrote Dean Pound: "There is by no means the general condition of demoralization, corruption and inefficiency which is portrayed in American newspapers. . . . In the clippings from the American press, which my friends send me from time to time, I can't recognize the land in which I am living. There is no censorship of the press. . . . The papers . . . which I see every day are as critical of the government as they like and are allowed a liberty in time of civil war which...
Then the questioning began. Would the U.S. send troops to Palestine? Not necessarily, said the President. Who would be the trustee? The United Nations, he said. Did the President still favor immigration into Palestine? His position had not changed (he is for immigration). Was he still in favor of partition? That, exclaimed Harry Truman happily, was just what he was trying...
...bitterness engendered in the South by the President's civil-rights program. Cried Senator Lister Hill of Alabama: "There cannot be Democratic Party unity with President Truman as [our] nominee." Senator Claude Pepper of Florida, no man to quail before Southern bigots, declared that the South should send unpledged delegates to the party's July convention...
...idea was picked up on all sides. Speaker of the House Joe Martin, who ranks second only to the President of the U.S., gave it his official blessing. Send airmail letters, urged Speaker Martin. "A 15? stamp might turn the tide for peace." New York's post office noted that airmail letters to Italy increased forthwith 100%. Martin's hope, and the hope of Italo-Americans, was that these exhortations from the world's greatest internationale, the U.S., might turn the tide of international Communism-that letters from son to father, brother to brother, cousin to cousin...
...knocking the government campaign off balance. In Washington, the State Department heard that a ragtag "international brigade" of 30,000 Greeks, French, Italians, Czechoslovaks, Poles, Germans and Spaniards was poised to strike from Albania and Yugoslavia. In Rome, Italian Communists announced formation of a "Greek Liberation Committee" which would send "food, clothing and medicine" to Vafiades...