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Defenders of sovereignty: sixty years ago this month, two insightful senators opposed the plan for world government and defended American sovereignty by voting against the UN Charter.(Henrik Shipstead, William Langer )
July 28, 1945 was a busy day in history. In Potsdam, Germany, newly elected British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, replacing Winston Churchill, met with President Harry Truman and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to decide the fate of a vanquished Germany.
The war in the Pacific dragged on. Over Japan, 2,000 Allied planes bombed Kure, Kobe, and targets in the Inland Sea. The air strikes sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi, the cruiser Izumo, the light cruiser Oyodo and a destroyer. In retaliation, the Japanese attacked American ships near Okinawa. A Japanese kamikaze flyer hit the American destroyer Callaghan, sinking it.
In New York, a U.S. Army B-25 ...
- US President Harry Truman (C), Sir Winston Churchi
- Picture from: Getty Images January 1, 1946 700+ words
Getty Images 01-01-1946 US President Harry Truman (C), Sir Winston Churchi Full Size JPG (1522 KB) POTSDAM, GERMANY: US President Harry Truman (C), Sir Winston Churchill (R), and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, pose for the press...
- President Harry Truman enlisted journalists in the cold war: are there...
- Magazine article from: Nieman Reports Bernhard, Nancy December 22, 2001 700+ words
In 1950, President Harry Truman addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors, seeking to enlist the assembled journalists in a "Campaign of Truth...
- Zona Research.(vice president Harry Fenick on Java dispute between Sun and...
- Newspaper article from: Soft-Letter January 27, 1998 700+ words
Zona Research vice president Harry Fenick on Microsoft's Java standards dispute with Sun: 'This is all a bunch of religious hoo-ha. The problem is that Java is not up to the mark, and Microsoft has had to optimize it for Windows.' (Quoted in Inforworld, 9/29/97)
- Advanced Strategies Corp. president Harry Fox. (prognosticating growth in...
- Newspaper article from: Soft-Letter August 29, 1993 700+ words
ADVANCED STRATEGIES CORP. president Harry Fox on his prediction that CD-ROM drive sales will.top five million units in 1993 and could hit 10 million next year: "We...
- GM VP due in. (General Motors Vice President Harry Pierce to meet with Israeli...
- Magazine article from: Israel Business Today September 15, 1995 700+ words
General Motors vice president, Harry Pierce, is due to visit Israel in the near future to hold talks concerning the company's research fund on automotive subjects...
- The 1947 diary of former US President Harry Truman has been rediscovered by an...
- Magazine article from: History Today September 1, 2003 700+ words
The 1947 diary of former US President Harry Truman has been rediscovered by an archivist in the Truman Presidential Library in independence, Missouri. The writings, unseen...
- "The only constant will be change": Boeing president Harry Stonecipher says one...
- Magazine article from: Interavia Business & Technology Sweetman, Bill October 1, 2001 700+ words
...evacuated it a week later, one of many high-rise buildings across the US that were emptied under threat of terrorist attack. President Harry Stonecipher spoke to Interavia that afternoon, from the company's old headquarters -- an unobtrusive building that overlooks...
- Sanctioning foreign policy: the rhetorical use of President Harry Truman.(Essay)
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Edwards, Jason A. September 1, 2009 700+ words
...freedom in Iraq, our Nation can proceed with confidence that we have done this kind of work before. After World War II, President Harry Truman believed that the way to help bring peace and prosperity to Asia was to plant the seeds of freedom and democracy...
Source: HighBeam Research, Defenders of sovereignty: sixty years ago this month, two insightful...