Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House dinner for General Giraud on the night of the invasion of Sicily (at which, among nonmilitary guests, was Secretary of State Cordell Hull), Franklin Roosevelt raised his glass in a toast to a liberated France, adding: "It is a very great symbol that General Giraud is here tonight. . . ." Yet it seemed to Frenchmen-both Giraudists and Gaullists alike-that the tanned five-star general, who has no stomach for politics, was a virtual prisoner in the U.S., his words censored, his movements circumscribed, his visits outside Washington mysterious...
People sought a reason. Why is the President so set against De Gaulle? Why all the inspired anti-De Gaulle stories? No matter how unlovable a personality, De Gaulle is still, to most living Frenchmen, the symbol of French resistance. What is the President's case against...
...very important, except as a symbol of the change that's come over this place, but wrecking crew are pulling down the tenements at 59 Plympton and 58 and 60 Mount Auburn Street. Once the most fashionable residences for "the boys," these rat-houses are being torn down by their owner, the Fly Club, as not being fit for service men or their wives to live...
China's Voice. In these six years of trial and endurance, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, more than any other man, has grown in stature as the symbol of a nation. Many a Chinese finds fault with the social and political views of this strong, indomitable leader who rose from China's minor gentry to direct 450,000,000 people. But none fails to see him as the chief artisan of resistance and final victory over Japan, of equality at the table of the nations...
Ever since his birth in the Evening Standard cartoons of David Low, Colonel Blimp has been the gaseous, walrus-mustached symbol of British muddling. Blimp paid reluctant attention to earth-shaking events as he waddled to the insular comfort of his club to find good sherry and claret, a deep leather chair and reassuring words in the London Times. When he spoke it was in gouty grunts, and his favorite words were "Gad, Sir." Usually this expressed his disapproval of anything which might change the way things had always been done and, by Gad, Sir, always would be done. Britons...