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...these flyers, 4,232 were shot down. Many reached no target. But some did. This film gives abundant images of both attack and defense-and both are at once unimaginably brave and abject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1945 | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Many a U.S. citizen, pondering Japan's abject helplessness to defend its own shores (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), asked: must they fight it out to the end? In Congress, clamor for a clear definition of U.S. policy toward a defeated Japan would not down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: To the Enemy | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...first big speech of Britain's general election campaign. Cried he: "My friends. I must tell you that the socialist policy [the Labor Party's] is abhorrent to the British idea of freedom. . . . There can be no doubt that socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and abject worship of the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Utopias & Nightmares | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...made the largest contribution to the necessary victory read yesterday of the march on Berlin, and until blood washed his brain into unconsciousness planned for San Francisco and Peace. The victory and the peace for which he fought until his last day are not to be gained by abject pessimism at our loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 | 4/13/1945 | See Source »

...duty no Christian might shirk. Not to provide them was an incitement to civil war. For, unlike Bolshevism or Fascism, Malvern's revolution did not glorify the impersonal power politics of the war of classes or the iron economic laws against whose predestined operation there can be only abject, unconditional surrender. Its proper subject was not Political Man or Economic Man, but man's relation to man as a consequence of man's relation to God. Malvern's New Order was as revolutionary as the New Testament. "The great function of the Church," says York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peculiar Revolutionist | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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