Word: complementation
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Officers announced that a full complement of men is needed. It was also disclosed that "Mashenka," the Russian play whose first showing in English was given by the HDS last spring, will be produced on Broadway as "Masha" with Dudley Diggs...
When Czech President Benes flies to Moscow to sign a 20-year alliance, he may provide real evidence that a Danube Federation is in the making. In such a body, a postwar, pro-Soviet Czecho-Slovakia would have the No. i position. Industrial Austria and Czecho-Slovakia might neatly complement agrarian Hungary, perhaps offer a haven for Rumania and for Croatia & Slovenia if prewar Yugoslavia should not revive. The rest of Southeastern Europe-Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania-might be encouraged to form a parallel Balkan Federation...
Last week the Navy added a postscript: nearly 1,000 men of the Helena's complement "today stand fit and ready to fight again." Some of them, oil-smeared and haggard, were picked up near the ship's grave. Others got to nearby islands, lived with the resourcefulness of good fighting men, were finally retrieved. They went to other ships, other stations. But they were still Helena men, would always...
...somebody' got 'plowed under' at Mackinac-either the so-called 'interventionists' or the so-called 'noninterventionists' of yesterday. The answer is that nobody got plowed under. There was a rational, tolerant meeting of patriotic minds upon wholly compatible philosophies of action which complement each other. That spells unity...
...mistake has been to rely too much on the Great Leader. . . . This dependence on authority is the exact complement of the irrational hatred of 'that man in the White House.' . . . The progressive movement is weak indeed if there is only one man in the country who can carry its banner. Worse things might happen to it in the long run than defeat of a fourth-term candidate, if that were necessary to stimulate it to ... a policy more fundamental than to continue to place a single champion in the Presidential chair...