In the early years of the war, diplomats were encouraged to leave their compounds and meet ordinary Afghans.

NEWYORKER: After America

He had an affair when he was posted to Berlin in the early years of the war, and almost certainly had another in Bad Nauheim.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

Within two years after the war ended, the Air Force was granted independence from the Army, and then went on to become first among equals in Pentagon councils during the early years of the Cold War.

FORBES: Air Force Wants A Bomber That Balances Cost With Capability

Franklin Roosevelt devised the concept of Lend Lease, which provided aid to Britain and other nations in the early years of World War II, while on a two-week cruise through the Caribbean in December 1940.

CNN: Give Obama a break

Marshall, the greatest soldier-statesman since George Washington, was wrong to oppose arms shipments to Great Britain in 1940, and wrong to argue for a cross-channel invasion during the early years of World War II, before the U.S. was ready.

WSJ: Our Generals Almost Cost Us Iraq

Obama campaigned and was elected on a platform of change, one that would end the abuses and torture so prevalent during the early years of the so-called war on terror.

CNN: Can Musharraf save U.S from liability for drone attacks?

Ishi-hara Shintaro is best known for being an outspoken nationalist who over the years has denied the Rape of Nanking, vilified the communist government of China, and most recently insulted Chinese and Koreans in Japan by saying sangokujin, a derogatory term for foreigners seldom heard since the early post-war years, could run riot in the wake of an earthquake.

CNN: The Best Local Administrator

Rather than a repressed silence about German suffering in the years following the war, there is almost nothing else in the media coverage of the early post-war decades.

ECONOMIST: Breaking the borders

But in the early Cold War years he was accused of being a communist and in 1955 was deported.

CNN: BOOKS