Word: shadowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadow of the towering Council of Five (see above), the Executive Committee of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations Organization buzzed along in London. Its 14 delegates had to decide when & where the first U.N.O...
...SHADOW FALLS-Georges Simenon -Harcourt, Brace...
Belgian-born, 42-year-old Georges Simenon (real name: Georges Sim) is one of the world's most prolific authors. Before turning to "serious" fiction (of which The Shadow Falls is supposedly an example) he wrote 300-odd pulp novels and thrillers, including the stories which made his Inspector Maigret one of fiction's most famed detectives. But last spring the gumshoe was on the other foot. Sleuthhound Simenon was snapped up by Paris police and indicted. The charge: "intelligence with the enemy" during the German occupation...
...General Walter C. Short, Commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department, and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet on the day the Japs attacked. New light shed by the reports did nothing to brighten their records; it cast them, indeed, into darker shadow. What the new light did was to illuminate other failures. Among them...
Regardless of current snafu and individual injustices, it was possible last week to see the shadow of the postwar Army & Navy...