Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warrior Winston Churchill was primarily interested in destroying Nazi Germany. Joseph Stalin, mindful of his exhausted country, was interested for the moment chiefly in creating his own Good Neighborhood on pretty much his own terms. Franklin Roosevelt represented a nation which did not know what kind of a Europe it wanted; he himself had not blueprinted the future of Europe for his countrymen...
...Maharaja of Patiala, 31, rose to his full 6 ft. 3 in. in his stocking feet. The leader of India's six million warrior Sikhs and ruler of the Punjab's No. 1 state had a duty to perform...
...Warrior. The present phase of Harry Hopkins' career began one day in May 1940, when he was sick abed at his home in Georgetown. He was a lonely man. He was still Secretary of Commerce, but he was not working at the job. To visitors he explained that he was through with Washington, that he would probably edit a magazine. Then there was a call from the White House inviting him to dinner. He rose from his sick bed, went to dinner, was asked to spend the night. He did not leave the White House for three and a half...
Death and Old Mexico. There Pedro and the soldier he befriended met their old Spanish enemies and friends-Diego de Silva, Catana, even the Inquisitor who condemned Pedro to death in Spain. The Aztecs, who welcome the Spaniards at first, turn on them at last like warrior ants. The retreat of the invaders over the broken causeways out of the city-la noche triste, the climax of Captain from Castile as it is of every book about Cortés' exploits-is the bloody nightmare of Spain in the New World...
...honor to have so many long and intimate talks with my friend and war comrade Marshal Stalin, and to deal with him on the many difficult questions inseparable from the united, forward march of the great nations. ... I hope most earnestly and I believe with great conviction that the warrior statesman at the head of Russia will lead the Russian people-all the peoples of Russia*-through the years of storm and tempest into the sunlight of a broader and happier age for all, and that with him in this task will march the British Commonwealth of Nations...