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...With a solemn bow to the Atlantic Charter, which "respects the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live," the U.S. Government resolved last week that home rule begins in your own backyard...
Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and their military men knew this. They knew the bitter toll of Axis submarines on Allied shipping. They knew, too, that China needs relief and must have it. Knowing these things, they approved this solemn statement...
General Charles de Gaulle at last said exactly where he stood. For months, French democracy had suffered from the lack of a rallying voice. Arguments had racked the Free French movement as to whether it should remain purely military or take a political stand. Rumors spread that tall, solemn, Roman Catholic General de Gaulle, like many another French officer, had monarchist leanings. But last week, having talked in London with French underground leaders (whose names as well as their routes to Britain had to be kept secret), General de Gaulle announced a resoundingly democratic, five-point political program...
Ever since India turned down Britain's offer of post-war independence, the U.S. press has cracked down on India's political leaders. A rash of cartoons has shown Gandhi as a loony bag of bones bent on balking the Japanese by lying flat in his breechclout. Solemn editorials have smeared the Indians. Typical was that of the Washington Post: "The responsibility for the failure must be placed squarely at the doors of the All-India Congress party. Its leaders are men deficient in statesmanship . . . petty, confused in mind...
...cemetery, six bareheaded youths—Private Weiner was only 18—carried the casket to a green hill among the sycamores. Nine solemn-faced Marines stood guard. When the body was lowered into the damp, fresh-dug grave, they fired three volleys into the leaden sky. Lots of people wept...