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Today's sole survivor of this scene on Dec. 6, 1941 had been no more than part of the background. But he had listened carefully. Last week, as Commander Schulz, soon to become executive officer of the battleship Indiana, he told the story to the Pearl Harbor Committee...
...UNRRA's help is to end with 1946. The threat of hunger formed the background of disquieting political developments. Democratic forces lost strength when the middle-of-the-road Action Party flew apart in a row between its right wing and moderates. Off went former Premier Ferruccio Parri to form a new middle-class group...
...agree with your suggestion for pictures embracing any creditable religious background. But you are wrong when you hint at conspiracy or suggest bigotry...
...anti-Communist labor paper, described him as "a servile propagandist... a consistent fabricator ... of his personal life and history," recalled that he was once praised by the Soviet Izvestia as a "lonely voice" in America. The New Leader also pointed out that Steel had the classic commentator's background-in 1934 he had written: "Hitler's days are numbered. The reader can count them on his fingers...
Toward the end of the war, Pratt said, the Navy had begun to improve itself, but "the Army clung throughout to [Major] General [Alexander] Surles, retired, who . . . simply lacked the background to be anything more than one of the glorified lackeys the Army system produced...