Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believing, and paid for their spiritual stubbornness in concentration camps. . . . I was engaged as interpreter in your War Crimes Organization, speak five languages. . . . I used the opportunities I had to talk to the 'man in the street" in almost all the, countries west of Russia's sphere of influence. ... I also made friends with and frequently visited the D.P. camps in Germany. These Europeans had nothing, and their prospective material future was more than dark; but their optimism and dignified faith was strong and unshakable. Europe is not spiritually beaten. I only wish I had the eloquence...
...opposed to the general concept of a snail's life and locomotion . . . I have found that the snail is in actuality a fast-moving animal in relation to his sphere and the relativity of distances. . . . Considering the great heights to which he can lay his track, the rough terrain over which he can glide, the obstacles which he tackles and surmounts . . . . the tenacity of purpose in achieving his goal, and a total lack of the all-too-human traits of indirection and lassitude-the snail is to be considered among the higher of the living animals...
...M.R.P. constitution as little better than the Communist-Socialist constitution which Frenchmen narrowly rejected last May. He charged that it 1) made the Cabinet subservient to the Assembly; 2) "strongly" limited the powers of the President of the Republic, giving him "no capacity to do anything in any sphere...
Promptly the Sasebo strikers scrambled back aboard their ships. The All-Japan Seamen's Union assured the Supreme Commander that there would be no further interference with repatriation shipping. To date, 4,500,000 Japanese have been repatriated from the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...British also asked all European governments through which the Jewish underground operates to help block refugee movements at their sources and at the exit ports. Governments outside the Soviet sphere promised to do what they could, but there was no prospect of help from the Soviet Union and her satellites...