Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer in danger of the gas chambers, torture and other forms of violent death, they see-and there is-little change. . . As matters now stand, we appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them, except that we do not exterminate them. . . . One is led to wonder whether the German people, seeing this, are not supposing that we are following or at least condoning Nazi policy...
...programs. Latest trend is to make the news painless. Mutual now has Marjorie and Royal Arch Gunnison, the husband-&-wife team who covered the Orient for the Christian Science Monitor, to chitchat the news on a show called Mr. & Mrs. Reporter (1 p.m., E.W.T.). ABC signed up the aging wonder boy Orson Welles. who wants to talk about Shirer's kind of subjects, and sound like Alexander Woollcott...
...Streptomycin, the new wonder drug made from a soil organism (TIME, Jan. 29), has at last had a try out on people, reported the Mayo Clinic's Drs. H. C. Hinshaw and W. H. Feldman. The group of experts, who conducted an experiment on 34 people, found that, against tuberculosis, streptomycin is nothing to shout about yet. Streptomycin did its best work on such odd kinds of tuberculosis as urinary, skin and miliary (nodules widely spread through the body). In streptomycin's favor: it is not dangerous to use. and experiments are continuing...
...Americans would occupy the rest of Austria. The streets were full of homeless people, homeless because they'd rather live as refugees than as subjects of the Russians. When pressed for details, none had anything but hearsay evidence to offer in support of their fears. It made me wonder how much of their fear was justified in fact and how much was the fruit of an assiduously pursued propaganda program engineered by Goebbels. I pass the idea along as worthy of consideration because in your Aug. 13 issue you seem to forget that many Austrians were once Nazi...
Strong Fusion. To London with Jimmy Byrnes, on the first sailing of the Queen Elizabeth since V-J day, went his wife, Maude; his closest adviser, Benjamin V. Cohen, the middle-aged wonder boy of the New Deal; Assistant Secretary Dunn, and a retinue of department specialists. Another notable member of the party was Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles, the most eminent Republican foreign-affairs expert...