Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito's heresy can be of great value to the U. S. Since the danger to American security today is not communism but Russian expansion, Tito's break with the Cominform is an encouraging sign of abatement in the cold war. If his venture is successful, both Eastern and Western communists may adopt his doctrine of independence...
...notices immediately the industriousness of the people and the thorough job of cleaning up the war damage and done. Rotterdam, greatly devastated, is at the moment building several spiffy functional department stores to fill the grassy vacuum in the middle of the city. The fight against the sea continues; the canals are constantly dredged; and the whole Zuider Zee is being transformed into land...
...familiar story of a wagon train moving west from Missouri to Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will be quick to appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted heartbreaker in low-cut linsey woolsey to take strong nation-makers from their plain wives and set them at each others' throats...
...what his dry, remote, ironic and highly individual writing amounts to. Hesse was born in Germany 72 years ago, wrote autobiographical novels and lyric poetry in his youth-he is considered one of the best German lyric poets since the age of Goethe -became a Swiss citizen during World War I in protest against German militarism. He traveled in India, wrote a volume on Hindu mysticism in his middle years, published a Dostoevskian psychological , novel in 1930 and after 15 years of silence brought out his masterpiece...
Russia entrusted the guidance of the East German Republic yesterday to a tight-slipped diplomat who pulled the strings for the Communist coup in Hungary after the war. Naming Gregori M. Pushkin chief of its diplomatic mission, the Soviet Union became the first power in the world to grant legal recognition to the nine day old state...