Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreed with Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin, last week in the U.S. , that there must be frequent consultations with the Commonwealth Prime Ministers. But, though the Dominions intend otherwise, his tone clearly showed that he was thinking of a Commonwealth centered in London, was uncertain whether he would get it. Said he: "The Mother Country-I must ask leave to use this name-anyhow, I think it is rather dangerous to plunge into a new nomenclature and I am not sure that anything like the Elder Sister Country would be a success. There was the old song...
...Uncertain Glory (Warner) indulges Warner Bros.' pet delusion that Errol Flynn may play the hero, but that he is even more appealing as a heel. This time Cinemactor Flynn is an Occupied-French murderer who is about to be guillotined when some opportune British bombs help him to escape. A dowdy Parisian plain-clothes man (Paul Lukas) recaptures him in a village where saboteurs have just blown up a bridge and the Gestapo is about to shoot 100 hostages in reprisal. Result: one of those ethical problems that bedevil Warner Bros.' pictures: Should the detective turn over...
...West Indian islands, largely isolated from one another, had exchanged few products, little information. In effect, they had been agricultural sweatshops, dependent on distant and uncertain markets. When German U-boats broke into the Caribbean and destroyed or scared away most of its shipping, a kind of regional unity was forced on the islands. The U.S. and Great Britain formed the Caribbean Commission to find ways to keep the islands alive while they were cut off from the outside world. The Commission did the job principally by encouraging local food production, inter-island trade, and other forms of regional cooperation...
Crossing the Chin and Naga Hills, three Japanese columns of uncertain strength were converging on Imphal, which lies just a little to the east of the lateral railroad that extends 250 miles to Ledo-the supply route for General Stilwell's forces advancing into northern Burma and for the goods that are shipped over the Hump by air to China. If the Japanese should take Imphal-last week they were only 30 miles away-they would be within reach of the railroad through which flow the supplies for both Stilwell and China...
...executive officer. Among WASPs at Romulus (Mich.) Army Air Field: an ex-gym teacher, an ex-Broadway dancer, an ex-Hollywood hat designer. WASP Hazel Ying Lee once flew with the Chinese Army. They are young (18½-35), but Paula Loop, ex-schoolma'am, thinks that the uncertain hours and nervous strain age them fast...