Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your story on Cartoonist Helen Hokinson [TiME, Nov. 14] brought vividly to mind our meeting in Connecticut several summers ago. My husband and I were vacationing in the East, and on the strength of having sold her four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
This week Monty was to address the English-Speaking Union in Manhattan, publicly and in more general terms. But the nub of his message was the same: that the West could not allow old rancors to divide it against the greater threat of the East. "Civilization is in danger," he said, "because of a clash between two conflicting moral codes: between Communism and Democracy . . . As a Christian soldier I declare myself an enemy of Communism and all that it stands for. Unless this danger can be held, great trouble lies ahead...
Speaking as a soldier, Montgomery warned: "To promise to rescue the West in due course after a successful invasion from the East is quite useless. If the West is overrun again, that is ... the end of Western civilization . . . Do not let us fail to do the right things...
...desperately cramped state, West Germany has been further burdened by a staggering influx of 9,000,000 refugees from the East-members of German minorities expelled from Eastern European countries, fugitives from the Red regime in East Germany. Daily, a thousand more straggle across the border into the Western zones. Some of the refugees have done well in the West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space...
...that our consular officials in Mukden have been released and there is presumably no need to send an American Legion task force to the Far East, the State Department must make its decision whether or not to recognize the Chinese Communist government. The U. S. has equivocated for four years; the issue can no longer...