Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things look good in Europe, but bad here. Practically everyone seems to think the whole world war is just about over, and that all we need do now is to plan fur coats and automobiles for the almost immediate future. Which probably means that the coming tough encounter with Japan will be prolonged months or years longer than necessary because of the letdown caused by false optimism. And that means plenty of lives just wasted! Not a cheering prospect for us, nor for our comrades, the soldiers and sailors. Mightn't be a bad idea to celebrate Germany...
...Admiral Hewitt & Co. who have by no means gone unmentioned in TIME (July 26, 1943), rate a 15-gun salute for good work in five tough amphibious operations: the landings in Africa, Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio, Southern France. Possessor of one of the U.S. Navy's most brilliant mathematical minds, Admiral Hewitt is one of the prime organizers of U.S. amphibious warfare...
None of these shifts ranked in importance with the appointment last week of cool, tough career Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 57, ex-Ambassador to Brazil, as U.S. envoy to Paris, with the rank of ambassador. Forthwith the French gaily opened up their big, chateau-shaped Embassy in Washington, closed since the 1942 departure of Vichyman Gaston Henri-Haye. Paris should be a hot diplomatic spot, which will be no novelty to Careerist Caffery, who has served U.S. interests abroad through six administrations. A Louisianian who studied to be a lawyer, Caffery went to work for the State Department when...
Allied leaders were prepared to be stern (see U.S. AT WAR), but there was less certainty that U.S. troops would or could be as tough. Pictures in London newspapers showing hungry Germans sitting down to a meal of Army rations while Yanks stood around with pleased smiles (see cut), touched off angry comments from people who had just been through the robot blitz. (A few robombs, apparently launched from planes, still landed in & around London last week...
...sessions got under way, Director-General Herbert Lehman admitted the prevalence of rumors that "we are not doing as much as some people expected. ..." He admitted that "greater cooperation is still to be desired." He denied one rumor-that he would resign. Delegates had tough policy matters to settle, too. Should UNRRA help ex-enemy Italy? If so, would Germany be eligible? And Japan? It would take a majority vote to effectuate such aid. One delegate was on record. China's Tsiang Ting-fu favored making "the necessities of life available to the Japanese after...