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...turn out to be a man with no qualms about murdering 10,000--or 10 million. Lenin had criticized Stalin, who had become General Secretary in 1922, for "concentrat[ing] unlimited power in his hands." He had no idea just how much power Stalin would wield after that January eve.--By John Cloud
...stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." So declared Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech on the eve of his nation's independence from Britain. In New Delhi the next day, the celebrating crowd was so huge that Nehru, the new Prime Minister, had to fight his way to the grandstand, at one point knocking off the turban of a man who had gotten in his way. He was worried for the safety of his friends, the last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, who was a cousin of England's monarch, and his wife...
...resolution that divided Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Britain announced it would hand authority over Palestine to the U.N. by May 14, 1948. Secretary of State George Marshall advised against recognition, warning Truman that Arab countries would cut off oil and unite to destroy the Jews. On the eve of British withdrawal--to be followed by an immediate Jewish declaration of independence--he told Truman "the great office of the President" was at stake...
...When the commanders of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division spoke to their men on the eve of war, they talked about being the fighting vanguard of a force that would be "liberating" Iraq. In the ranks, the soldiers ate it up. They envisioned scenes like the liberation of Paris, with jubilant locals welcoming them...
...jerseys have helped boost the company's annual sales to $25 million in 2002 from just $2.8 million in 2000. That makes Mitchell & Ness, formerly a little-known supplier of quaint 1930s-era wool baseball jerseys, the latest "urban gear" phenomenon. Other customers include Allen Iverson, the rapper Eve and a growing coterie of buyers in Asia...