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...V-E Issue...
...generous. In one master stroke, he had won the applause of Republicans and had sharply reminded the nation of the immediate necessity of feeding Europe. Even those who had balked at the idea of the U.S. "feeding the world" would now give weight to Herbert Hoover's passionate V-E day declaration: "It is now 11:59 on the clock of starvation...
...notion of sovereignty was stronger than ever. Many of the states represented at San Francisco had just been through a war in which they used unprecedented resources with unprecedented prodigality and obtained a victory which each thought of as a national achievement. Sovereignty had reached a new high on V-E...
...V-E day came the explosion. In Damascus and Aleppo anti-French riots broke out. Scores of people were killed or injured. In Beirut French shops were burned. (British stores in the same blocks were spared). Strikes spread, markets closed. Nervously, the French explained that the Senegalese had arrived because the Levant was now a French redeploying area for the Far Eastern war. Cried The Lebanon's Premier Abdul Hamid Keramy: "The French think that with their armies they can deprive us of our independence. . . . They can cut off our heads and destroy us, but they cannot touch...
...excellent score and eloquent silences frequently looks tinselly in type. The eye sometimes misses the dramatic moment that Corwin skillfully devises for the ear: the sounds of underwater sloshing, a metallic pounding on a sunken sub, to ask the men inside if they've heard the V-E news-and no answer comes...