Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a baseball fan who has just seen his favorite team and then rushed to read his favorite correspondent's view of the game, so we with this Naval Task Force off Southern France waited for TIME. Unlike the fan, we shared your correspondent's grandstand seat, his secrets (the Navy plan of attack and the Army follow-up), and his close-up of the leaders and the players...
...London dispatches said that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden or even Prime Minister Winston Churchill may speak soon upon the controversial subject in Parliament. Some Washington sources insisted that Foreign Secretary Eden received the Morgenthau Plan with warm approval. Others insisted that this was mere British politeness; these took the view that Mr. Eden was privately horrified at the Morgenthau Plan...
...Morotai, where engineers started building an airfield immediately, MacArthur's greatly augmented force of bombers will be within good striking distance of the Netherlands East Indies. But, attractive as the western view seemed, MacArthur's eyes were lifted to the northern horizon where the Philippines lie, 300 miles away. Said he: "They are waiting for me there. It has been a long time...
...command of the situation, spoke with off-the-record frankness. The gist of his on-the-record remarks: the U.S. mission's primary purpose was to set up the means for licking Japan. But it was also going to study the economic situation, present and prospective, with a view to immediate and postwar problems...
...officers, were held up by handfuls of Japs in caves. When it began to look as if what had been gained might be lost, Fourth Marine Division troops even moved in front of a sector of the 27th's line to save it. From the Marine point of view, General Ralph Smith's chief fault was that he had long ago failed to get tough enough to remove incompetent subordinate officers...