Word: sternly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gulf a short time prior to the Lingayen invasion, we had many native dugout canoes around our ship, their occupants, of course, being mainly interested in food and clothing. In one such canoe was what appeared to be an entire family, the mother of which was sitting in the stern, paying no attention to the bartering going on, but rather being apparently deeply engrossed in a copy of TIME. I tried to attract her attention with no luck as she was apparently thoroughly enjoying what she was reading...
Nevertheless, stern measures have been laid out. The latest plan for its control, "revised directive 1067," laid on President Truman's desk only ten days before war's end, followed closely the Morgenthau or "goat pasture" plan. Southern Germany would largely revert to agrarian economy. All industry capable of producing armaments (a broad definition) would be destroyed or transferred, the remainder controlled by the occupation forces. The educational system would be overhauled...
Uprooting. From this diagnosis, the group deduced that it would be useless merely to preach democracy to the German people: they are emotionally incapable of understanding the democratic principles of give & take and cooperation among equals. Suggesting a "stern" peace rather than a "hard" one, they proposed a complete uprooting of the institutions which have been the sources of Germany's infection...
Molotov accepted the decision-until the executive committee insisted upon admitting Argentina's tawdry, turncoat government on the basis of its recent enforced conversion to the United Nations. At that, Molotov put his Russian back up, rocked the conference with his stern objections...
Molotov accepted the decision-until the executive committee insisted upon admitting Argentina's tawdry, turncoat government on the basis of its recent enforced conversion to the United Nations. At that, Molotov put his Russian back up, rocked the conference with his stern objections...