Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wildest Luxury." He told correspondents in Rome that UNRRA fell far short of meeting Europe's needs. But, said he, the fault was not UNRRA's. He blamed the governments of nations which "still have what to the famished people of liberated Europe must seem like the wild est sort of luxury." And these govern ments were not living up to their commitments. Describing the complete con fusion into which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program...
...Cupboard Was Bare. The U.S. had some excuse. Its own food outlook was anything but bright (see BUSINESS). There was plenty of will to help Europe but almost no will to make any real sacrifice, and nothing short of real sacrifice could begin to meet UNRRA's and Europe's needs...
...millions of displaced persons ("D.P.s," the armies called them) threatened to create a civil anarchy in Germany far greater than the social dislocation of war. Hungry, sick, and bitterly vengeful, the slaves and prisoners burst their bonds and started home, sometimes looting and destroying, sometimes killing. But in remarkably short order the hordes were corralled, deloused, fed, shown movies and systematically sorted out. The U.S. and British armies had done most of the good work. Now they were turning the job over to UNRRA specialists...
...that the Liberals will hold the balance of power. The Conservatives still feel that they will get a majority, but the experts believe it will be, at best, a much smaller one than the margin of 50 or more seats which Prime Minister Churchill aimed at. . . . Great Britain, in short, has swung well to the left and it only remains to be seen how far to the left...
...seats from the Conservatives. They believed that voting for 50 other seats had gone so much in their favor that the result would be decided by a very narrow margin. If Labor has won 100 new seats, it would have 266 seats in the next Parliament-22 seats short of the number on which Ramsay MacDonald formed his second Labor Government...