... value. T.S. ELIOT These fragments I have shored against my ruins (What the Thunder Said, from The Waste Land) The ruins created across Europe as a result of the First World War enter the world of T.S. Eliot's poetry indirectly. Eliot's major poem, The Waste Land, published in 1922, is not a land literally laid waste by war, a real wasteland which poets such as Owen and Rosenberg had graphically described. Instead ... such as T.S. Eliot, for whom words fail adequately to capture elusive meanings: Trying to learn to use words . . . Because one has only learnt to get the better of words Fo...

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... productive.21 Potsdam had originally been scheduled to take place earlier, but the Americans delayed it until July 16, 1945 because this was the same day the atomic bomb was to be tested.22 The United States Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, advised Truman to offer an atomic partnership to the Soviets in exchange for concessions in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.23 However ... agreement, and began to consider simply conceding to the Soviets their sphere of influence. He was restrained however by John Dulles, the leading Republican at the conference. Dulles warned Byrnes that if he were t...

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... the exact same thing happened to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians when, in 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. This act authorized the use of the military to remove the named tribes from east of the Mississippi to a designated spot west of the river. The ... the camps conditions themselves were the Santee Dakotas in Minnesota, the Modoc of California, and the "Meeker Massacre" caused by the Utes in 1879. In all these cases, although the government and military would hold the prisoners without food, the main cause of death was in fact disease. Ironi...

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