Word: uncertainities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death of General Sikorski made future Polish policy uncertain. He was not afraid of facts. Though he loathed Communism, he made a pact with the Soviet Union shortly after it found itself at war with Germany. Though his personal politics were ruggedly conservative, he included some liberals in his Government. But his Government was riddled with backward-looking Poles who opposed his policies, worked unceasingly to destroy his pact with Russia...
...usual, Editor Sargent sums up his study of the private schools in no uncertain terms: "Each war brings out the weaknesses . . . of our educational system. . . . Opposition to private schools based on the claim that they are not democratic. . . . More careful investigation . . . of our social system has disclosed . . . that not only do men not have equal opportunities in this great democracy, but that there is a well established caste system, in the toils of which we have been so closely enmeshed that we have been unable to see it. . . . The ideals and aims of some of the schools must change...
...makes no hasty commitments which the nation might later regret. Yet it is a crystal-clear statement of American intentions to help make a good peace. As a foreign policy credo, it is probably as specific as could be made when the structure of the postwar world is so uncertain...
...Sardinia steadily increased (see p. 55). Italian and German resistance, particularly in the air, steadily decreased. But softening by air is not conquest. At the weekend, Americans struck at Italy's chief weapon of Mediterranean defense, its navy, with an air attack on three battleships at Spezia. Results: uncertain...
...clock, in the dazzling morning light, the same pattern of action was repeated. Results: again uncertain; but the enemy was still near. No one slept much...