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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...One of the few bright, spots in Berlin was the busy office of the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe. Last week some 10,000 parcels of food, clothing and other goods from the U.S. poured into CARE's office in the city's Western sector. A white-haired, undernourished piano teacher wept openly as a CARE parcel containing a Christmas turkey was handed to her. "Someone I don't even know," she cried, "a Dr. Cohn of New York, sent this...
...this year, CARE-which had started at war's end with a supply of two million 10-in-1 army rations-had sent 9,000,000 relief packages to Europe and Asia. This Christmas season, CARE offered 18 varieties of packages, ranging from the $13.50 holiday parcel (including one canned Sell's turkey, 8 oz. Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener) to the $10 layette packages (including...
...There has always been and always will be one capital only-Jerusalem the Eternal," cried Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. "Thus it was 3,000 years ago and thus it will be, we believe, until the end of time." Then, bluntly defying the U.N. demand for Jerusalem's internationalization (TIME, Dec. 19), pugnacious Ben-Gurion moved the seat of his government from Tel Aviv to the Holy City...
...from Churchill. Manstein's Junker ancestors had fought for two kaisers and one czar. Young Manstein was commissioned in the exclusive Potsdam Guards, finished World War I with the rank of captain. In World War II, he served brilliantly as chief of staff to Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt in the invasion of Poland; in the summer of 1940, by then in command of an army of his own, Manstein broke through the French line on the Somme. When Hitler launched his attack on Russia, it was Manstein who commanded the southern German army group, won a string...
...beaches that face the mainland; others have been sent to Sun's U.S.-style training camps in the south. The Formosans, who spent 50 years before World War II under Japanese rule, are getting used to the Chinese soldiery. "A country must have soldiers to have peace," said one farmer. "The ones in our village seldom bother us any more...