Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American living abroad, I read with great interest . . . the suggestions of Senator H. Alexander Smith that Finland utilize future war debt payments for exchange scholarships for students and technicians [TIME...
...think it would be a splendid gesture to suggest to the member nations signing the North Atlantic Treaty that they be allowed to liquidate their war debts in similar fashion. These funds could thus become great pools of mutual friendship and good will, helping the generation about to cope with world problems to work harmoniously and understandingly together...
...jungles was etched in his memory. His book, The Jungle Is Neutral, has been greeted in England with the kind of praise that British reviewers pass out once in a blue moon -"magnificent," "enthralling," "terrific." It is indeed one of the finest personal accounts to come out of World War...
...Jungle Is Neutral is packed to the boards with incredible adventure and impressive evidence of human fortitude, but it is written without a note of excitement, understated to the point of monotone. For that reason, and by the simplicity of its statement, it makes most first-person war books seem almost shrill...
...inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split the blame between the President and her husband, who had refused to use his influence to keep Timmy out of the draft...