Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidentally, Dewey Short was not against labor, he wanted it known. He had been a worker since he was eight years old. He had sold papers, shined shoes, handled cakes of ice "bigger than I was-they slide," he declaimed. "I know what it is to look at the south end of a mule going north down a corn row all day long...
Among other members of the Commonwealth India's position had created powerful misgivings. From South Africa, fiery ex-Prime Minister, Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, had warned: "Clearly India wishes to retain as an independent republic . . . some of the benefits and advantages of Commonwealth connection . . . My personal view is that there is no middle course between Crown and republic, between in & out of the Commonwealth ... If in some nebulous and muddled way you can be both in & out of it, the whole concept of Commonwealth goes and what remains is mere name without substance, the grin without...
...Open Door was closing fast in China. Once the Reds had slammed it shut, the dust of history would settle on half a century of Western endeavor and propagation of Western ideals on Asia's mainland. Watching the relentless march of the Communists below the Yangtze and south across prostrate China, the U.S. wondered: What next in Asia...
Slowly but inexorably, the armies of Communist General Chen Yi bore down across the flatlands of the Yangtze delta. In the second week of the South China offensive the Reds' pace had slowed down somewhat, but they triumphantly reported eight Nationalist armies crushed and trapped between the Yangtze and the coast. Hangchow, last coastal railroad gateway to the south, was deserted and lay open to the conquerors. Red armies also bore down on Shanghai...
Chinese communists claimed the capture of a string of towns 105 to 125 miles south of the Yangtze River yesterday as part of their southward drive. In quiet Shanghai, meanwhile, the government reported that the Reds had signed a mutual defense pact with the Russian-sponsored North Korean regime and had pledged aid to Burmese Communists...