Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reflection at a Distance. The Admiral went back to Hawaii. There, with the warm trade wind riffling papers on his desk, he drew up a gloomy (and prophetic) memorandum on the danger of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He never again saw or heard from the President...
Back came a counterclaim, also for $1,000,000. Eversharp and Eberhard Faber, in a sizzling defense memorandum, went after the "somewhat checkered career" of Milton Reynolds, president of Reynolds International Pen. They charged that he had owned or been active in at least four companies which went broke. He had recently sold U.S. retailers Mexican cigaret lighters which "later turned out to be defective. He ... is apparently ... a 'stop-&-go guy,' a man who . . . drops the item [when it goes sour] and turns to another...
...page memorandum to the Imperial Government, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur last week decreed revolution. He demanded full civil liberties, release of political prisoners, abolishment of all totalitarian powers and dismissal of the Minister of Home Affairs, who had persistently abused these powers. There was to be freedom of speech (even about the Emperor) and freedom of thought (under Japanese law, people suspected of thinking wrong thoughts could be imprisoned...
McKnight has further buttressed his position by describing the Emergency Council's action as constitutional in the most recent edition of "Morning side Memorandum," Columbia's official publication for its men in the armed forces...
...Japanese High Command in China, General Chu Teh sent an ultimatum: their forces in north, central and south China must surrender only to the Chinese Communists. To the U.S., Russian and British Ambassadors in Chungking, Yenan sent a memorandum: the Chinese Communists must be represented at the formal surrender of the Japanese; U.S. Lend-Lease to the Central Government must stop immediately...