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Another question had to be answered: where would UNO meet in the interim? The selection committee had blithely settled on New York as temporary headquarters, but there was no certainty that New York could accommodate UNO. Atlantic City and San Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So...
Few were the well-fed, well-dressed Jews whom General Morgan had described. Most were in tatters, without shoes, with festering sores and wounds, road-weary and tired unto death.
"Foolish Man!" The Committee of the All-India National Congress, which speaks for most of India, was meeting at the foot of Bombay's Malabar Hill. Hundreds of workers had toiled day & night for a fortnight to erect a pandal (tent) big enough to seat the 300 delegates and...
Out of fetid dwellings whose floors were littered with "sucklings bedded on rags and tatters" tottered howling greybeards, goats, whores, filthy children, "quadrupeds bleating . . . bipeds screaming." The crowd surged against Virgil's litter, screaming insults. "When you've croaked you'll stink like any other! Litter loafer...
Born of Desperation. The basis of future Japanese naval and naval-air war was thus laid bare. With their air force in tatters and their navy cut to shreds, the enemy was preparing for a last-ditch defense by any means at hand. And to the Japanese, that meant murder...