Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early Saturday morning Shanghai woke to the scream of ambulances carrying the injured to hospitals. Along Shanghai's waterfront, which the Kiangya had left only the afternoon before, hearses bearing bodies picked their way through a neverending stream of coolies pushing carts piled high with crates, boxes, suitcases of still more refugees frantically evacuating their belongings and fleeing the city...
Attlee's silence at the conclusion of Churchill's oratorical barrage was probably the best way out of an embarrassing and messy situation. Since war's end, the Labor government (on the assumption that most existing equipment would be antiquated by the time there was another war) has sold or given away the enormous total of ?546 million worth of supplies and equipment. Other material is rotting and rusting in dumps, particularly in Germany. In one case, radio and radar equipment was stuffed down an old mineshaft and sealed with concrete. An energetic farmer...
...given by Carabinero (security police) General Manuel Alvear, who said that Argentine Consul Luis Zervino had warned him that Chile's situation was grave, that it could be mended only by a military government on the Argentine model. Zervino had told him that a revolutionary movement was under way and advised him to get on the bandwagon. Zervino had also said that the revolt might be headed by Ibañez or by General Jorge Berguno (now in Buenos Aires, a fugitive from Chilean justice...
Columnist Elsa: Maxwell paused in her celebrity-collector's report to cluck over the "shameful and almost unbelievable" way the press has been hounding Sharman Douglas and the Marquess of Milford Haven (TIME, Nov. 29). To Elsa, the subject may as well be closed: "I am quite sure that she is not going to marry [him] . . . She is not in love with him . . . neither of them has any money...
...dangers of all religious and social movements is the urgency of the perfectionists-the men who want to reach their goal immediately . . . The task facing the churches can only be accomplished if the thought, prayer and service of the churches are pooled in a large way . . . The most important thing is not church union but Christian unity...