Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With varying degrees of exasperation and bitterness, the Navy's angry men pounded away last week at an astonishing variety of targets-the atomic bomb, the Air Force, strategic bombing, the National Defense Department, the basic U.S. war plan. In the klieg-lighted clamor of the House Armed Services Committee room, officer after officer took the stand. Some fired off a few wild shots...
...Navy member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Japan and of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group at Bikini, declared that atomic area bombing would be little more than "random mass slaughter" and militarily unsound. Strategic bombing, he said, did not have a decisive effect in World War II. Cried Ofstie, "It is time that strategic bombing ... be examined in relation to the decent opinions of mankind...
...would find little satisfaction in some other Nehru remarks of the week: "We have no intention to commit ourselves to anybody at any time . . . How can peace be preserved? Not by surrendering to aggression, not by compromising with evil or injustice, but also not by talking and preparing for war...
...nuns were instructed to explain the pamphlet to their pupils. Other copies were distributed through the Catholic War Veterans, Knights of Columbus, Holy Name and Rosary societies. Parish priests were briefed. In all, the church expected to distribute close to 250,000 copies. But most Jersey political observers thought that, even with the church's help, Wene would have to make more gains before he could cry "bingo" and walk off with the governorship as his prize...
Said the FAO report: "1948 marked the ending of acute food scarcities in Europe ... A major rehabilitation in agriculture has been achieved." By 1951, the delegates predicted, most Europeans would be eating as much (though not quite so well) as they did before the war...