Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps these carefully tended acres of our dead will be a testimony as to the purpose of the United States, that men in later generations may see we have not been unmindful of the necessity to stop aggression, that the world cannot remain half slave and half free, and that many were valiant enough to pour out their blood for freedom...
Samovars & Doorknobs. One major bottleneck is trained industrial manpower. Russia lost millions of her best workers in the war, and the 5,000,000 or so German prisoners and draftees have the inadequacies of all slave labor. Said one disgruntled Soviet factory director: "When we brought a German who said he was a diesel specialist to a diesel engine that needed repair, he would then say he was a marine diesel specialist. . . . Phooey, they are useless...
Mikolajczyk's activities in exile led to 'the arrest of his wife Cecylia and his son Marjan, who were still in the homeland. Both survived long imprisonment. Both are now in England. Until Mme. Mikolajczyk dies, she will bear upon her hand Slave Number 64023, branded there by the Nazis of Oswiecim...
...head came from barren Easter Island, where the natives are at a loss to explain the great stone images, up to 60 feet high, which dot the island. They say their old king knew all about them, but he and his court scholars were carried off by Peruvian slave raiders in 1862. More explicable objects...
...Menthon, a mild-looking law professor with a scraggly mustache and professorially stooped shoulders, who had been a member of the French underground and was now chief French prosecutor at Nürnberg. In a daylong oration he opened France's case, which deals with slave labor, looting and atrocities in six occupied countries. Said he: "A tortured peoples' craving for justice is the basic foundation of France's call...