Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami, oldsters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars abdicated their leadership to the veterans of World War II, who make up 85% of the 1,250,000 members. As commander in chief the V.F.W. elected Clyde A. Lewis, 36-year-old ex-bomber pilot who served in the European theater. Two other World War II veterans were chosen senior and junior1 vice commanders, and heirs apparent to the top job in succeeding years...
...conference in The Netherlands' staid capital. With the U.N.'s Commission for Indonesia looking on, the delegates in The Hague's ancient Hall of Knights expected to spend two months at solving the thorny Indonesian problem which has plagued the Dutch and the Western world since war...
With a defiant "hands off!" meanwhile, the Yugoslav government kept up the furious pace of its propaganda war with the Kremlin. Blared Tito's Foreign Office last week: "Yugoslavia's people and its government will not allow anyone whomsoever to interfere in their internal affairs." As to the 31 Russian nationals who, Moscow said, had been treated "inhumanly" in Yugoslav prisons, they were all "spies, saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries...
...cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America's erstwhile No. 1 Communist Gerhart Eisler. When one of the delegates blurted out "Long live Stalin!", foreign guests and their Soviet friends...
During the war years, Adenauer retired to a spacious white house near Cologne, and worked in his garden. In 1945 the U.S. Army reinstalled him once again as mayor of his beloved Cologne...