Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Does he produce the same impression on the Russian soldier? Does the Red Army man make the same appeal to the populations he liberates? The one thing to be sure of is that the occupying armies, wherever they are, are examples of systems they represent. . . . The G.I., in short, . . . plays a revolutionary role. . . . The idea of freedom continues to exert an irresistible attraction even for those who know it only by hearsay. If there is any reason why democracy does not win in competition with other systems, it is because democrats do not bid for the enormous majorities yearning...
...delay in London were such fundamental questions as juridical responsibility of heads-of-state and their higher subordinates, and whether the act of aggressive war should be considered a crime in itself. But narrower legal points had accounted for most of the recent discussion. Example: should the indictments be short (Anglo-American practice), or an almost complete statement of the prosecution's case (Continental practice)? A French expert described the resulting compromise: "A Continental lawyer looking at the document will object because it is based on Saxon law; a Saxon lawyer will claim it's based on Continental...
...capture by the Red Army, Russian officers for the first time permitted Allied correspondents into Austria's capital last week. A token force of U.S. and British troops arrived just before. Among the newsmen were TIME Correspondents Tom Durrance and William Walton, and LIFE Photographer John Phillips. Shortly after their arrival, Durrance and Phillips were arrested by the Russians.. They did not like Photographer Phillips snapping scenes that might show the Russians in a bad light. In a short time the two Americans were released...
...turning out the tight little oligarchy that had run the country for decades, Peruvians had swung left. But President Bustamante ("a short, careful step is better than a brilliant, audacious hop") was a moderate. Even Lima's El Comercio, organ of the powerful reactionary Miró Quesada family, hailed him as a "gentleman highly regarded by everybody and without enemies or opposition...
Surprisingly, OCS found that few manufacturers were so short of funds that they needed advance payments to tide them over reconversion. Nearly 90% of all firms whose contracts were canceled had ample funds of their own, or could borrow from local sources...