Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vishinsky had offered the Russian plain in his first speech before this session of the U.N. in September, after he had belabored the U.S. and Britain for trying to start an atomic war. It proposed: 1) that the assembly condemn "preparations for war" being made by the two western nations; 2) that the assembly outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon; and 3) that the assembly request the Big Five (U. S., Britain, France, China, and Russia) to make a new non-aggression pact...
...itself. 2) It is an Oriental culture, whereas the Sovict Union has become steadily Westernized. 3) There is a great deal of rugged territory between Moscow and Peking, and remote control does not work very well when it is that remote. 4) The Chinese liberated themselves in the last war; there was no Russian Army to parade in the streets and insure "free" elections...
There are amusing touches. The first accounts of Lincoln's shooting, taken off the New York Tribune wire, are as confused and contradictory as any modern disaster reports. Gettysburg sounds like two different battle from the reports of Virginia and Ohio correspondents--just as the latest war sounded incredible to readers of both American and Japanese dispatches...
...Horace Greeley in an interview with Brigham Young, in which Young first admitted to 15 wives (1859); Henry Stanley of the Tribune finding Dr. Livingstone (1872); the world's first airplane flight, reported exclusively by the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (1903); the London Daily Telegraph revealing Kaiser Wilhelm's war plans in another exclusive, this time an interview (1908). these are the headline stories of their times, and they cannot but thrill the reader still, for with the dust blown off them they jump from yellowed pages like the four-alarm fires and gangland killings of today...
This is not a book which lends itself to criticism, for it is made from well-written, timely, lively copy. It is, of course, limited by its subject matter--it only covers war, politics, religion, medicine, death, birth, love, hate, courage, coward-ice, comedy, and tragedy...