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...Angeles, Harry Truman, discussing his own vocation, said: "A politician is the ablest man in a government, and when he's dead they call him a statesman." At 60, Harry Truman is very much alive...
...weeks ago Chiang Kai-shek began to take steps to reform the draft machinery. One of his ablest generals, Chen Cheng, is pushing a reorganization of the Army, to abolish about a third of its theoretical divisions, so that henceforth Chinese Army units will be full strength...
...veterans have already begun digging into the rich mines of political and human interest news long sealed by dictatorial censorship, but the digging has been difficult. In Italy, reports have been sharply restricted by military censorship. The ablest reports to date have come from the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, whose stories on the Ciano execution (TIME, July 10) and the Matteotti murder (TIME, Aug. 7) stirred international interest. Other political writers who have begun to clear the picture of Europe under Fascism are the U.P.'s Reynolds and Eleanor Packard, I.N.S.'s Mike Chinigo...
...York hotel room last week, merry-eyed M. (for Marcel) W. (for William) Fodor, 53, one of the oldest and ablest of U.S. foreign correspondents, smiled happily and rubbed his hands. After a six-year absence he was going back to his Balkan beat, on which, he is perhaps the world's top expert, and he expected great things...
...sovereign nations in a cooperative effort to prevent future wars. Let us face up boldly to the magnitude of that task. ... It cannot be the work of any one man or of a little group of rulers. . . . The structure of peace must be the work of many men . . . the ablest men and women America can produce...