Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even hungrier in 1948 than it was in 1947. The crisis will come next April or May. No one need be surprised at news of famine, near-famine, malnutrition and rations cuts; there has been grim and ample warning. The latest prophecy came last week from. Director General Sir John Boyd Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization who warned, in a year's-end report to the United Nations, that there will continue to be "a food shortage of world magnitude. During the coming year, many in Europe and Asia will die from the direct or indirect effects...
...Sir William Webb, chairman of the International Military Tribunal, Far East, called it "the greatest trial in history." It was likely that history, at least as taught in Japan, would remember chief defendant Hideki Tojo longer than chief prosecution witness Tanaka-and longer than anything else about the trial that was to establish a Japanese conspiracy against peace and humanity...