Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Bevin spoke the hope of millions of people who, having feared last year that the Berlin crisis might mean imminent war, now believed that the end of the Berlin blockade was at least the beginning of peace. In many quarters, the notion grew that the Russians were undertaking a strategic withdrawal from Europe. This attitude was balanced by a note of uneasy caution. Many observers found that by & large in their press and radio the Communists were being their usual difficult selves. Said U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery: "The flowers of peace cannot be expected to bloom...
...four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...
...world heaped honors on Maeterlinck. King Albert of the Belgians made him a count. Hollywood accorded him its highest accolade by starring Shirley Temple in his The Blue Bird. During World War II, Maeterlinck and his wife fled to the U.S. With them came two bluebirds. The Maeterlincks were permitted to land, but the bluebirds were barred because of the danger of psittacosis (parrot fever...
Last week, peace seemed finally in sight in the long-drawn war between the Dutch and the Indonesian Nationalists. In Batavia, the U.N. Commission for Indonesia announced a cease-fire agreement. Worn down by Nationalist guerrilla fighting and worried by Communist advances in Asia, the Dutch had finally given in to the stern resolution of the Security Council, condemning their "police action" last year...
Time & again since war's end, Britons have been told that they had rounded the corner to economic recovery. Time & again, they have found that just around the corner was another crisis. In the face of each new crisis, Britons worked harder than ever before; industrial production boomed to 40% above the prewar level. But Britain was finding it increasingly hard to get dollars in exchange for its sweat and toil...