Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forceful rule was out, and equality because you're a HUMAN BEING in 11 The Indonesians try to rule their own country, the Annamese revolt against the return of French rule, and they're cut down by machine-gun fire like animals. I can't understand the mental make-up of people who were themselves just released from the yoke of the vanquished and now take up the mantle of Conqueror again...
From G.I.s to generals, U.S. military men were fed up with the occupation. General Eisenhower's September report, released last week, reflected this feeling and took a critical view of Allied cooperation. The Russians, who like Eisenhower and understand candor, became more cooperative immediately after the report was published. In a subsequent letter to President Truman, Eisenhower proposed that military occupation in the U.S. zone be replaced by civilian control as soon as possible. Truman agreed. Redeployment had so thinned the occupying force that it lacked enough experienced men for direct control of the German people. The next phase...
...cultural affairs and to every aspect of life . . . destroys the value of foreign correspondents in a free world and has created a general distrust abroad of all news emanating from the Soviet Union. "Soviet censorship ... is dictatorial and arbitrary. . . . Some censors are insufficiently acquainted with the English language to understand the material submitted to them ... are often uninformed...
Stalin's prose, at least in translation, commonly gives the impression of having been distilled in a concrete mixer. But it is easy to understand how his dogged reiteration that victory was sure shored up Russian morale during the darkest days...
...dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power; the slave who wrote the fables of beasts and men." Muses young Isherwood: "I knew that face. It was the face of a political situation, an epoch. The face...