Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the World. Last week, Michael Scott called again on the U.N.; this time he won a public hearing before the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee. The South African delegation refused to attend. But others among the 59 delegations listened carefully, read with deep concern a bulky document, In Face of Fear, which the speaker had compiled...
Isaac did not know what a "convalescent camp" was; to him it meant school. At twelve, he could neither read nor write, and school sounded wonderful. At Tunis airport, Isaac and 27 other children from Tunisian slums boarded a Dutch DC-3. Their destination: the convalescent camp for Jewish children at Holmestrand, in Norway...
When globe-trotting Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Moscow in 1936 to interview Joseph Stalin he also met a bearded, scholarly American named Angus Ward, then U.S. consul in Moscow. He heard of him no more until last October, when he read that Ward, by then U.S. consul in Mukden, Manchuria, had been clapped in jail by the Chinese Communist government. Like many another indignant American, Roy Howard waited for stern and decisive action by the U.S. State Department to get its consul out of jail. After a wait of weeks, while State hemmed & hawed and did nothing either...
...representatives "like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting up a committee to consider changes in the law which made Tass libel-proof. To illustrate Tass's mendacity, Viscount Jowitt read a Tass report in Moscow's Literary Gazette of how Londoners "supplement their starvation rations ... On Sundays, armed with guns and traps, [they] set out for the suburbs to hunt wild rabbits, starlings, squirrels, hedgehogs and polecats." Viscount Jowitt offered a ?5 prize for every polecat found in the suburbs...
...statistics released by the Bavarian Government last week document the shocking fact that former Nazi party members hold a majority of civil service posts in the more important state ministries. Anyone who read beyond the encouraging headlines on last summer's election for the first Federal Parliament knew the multitude of totalitarian splinter groups campaigning and electing in Bavaria. Yet last week, the Occupation lifted licensing regulations on political parties...