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Ever since the Communists took Peking two years ago, world-famed Yenching University, symbol of Western faith, learning and respect for China, has lived under an ax. Last week the ax fell. On the ground that China must be saved from "American imperialist culture," the Reds announced that they are taking over lock, stock & barrel. Thus ended one of the most unselfish ventures in education that Americans ever gave their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: End of the Open Hand | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Even with a Battle-Ax." Austin does not make U.S. policy in the U.N. That is the job of the State Department, consulting with the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: I Fear It Not | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...admit that U.N.'s timidity in the face of Chinese Communist aggression has any ominous resemblance to the League of Nations' historic breakdown when confronted by Japanese aggression in Manchuria and Italian aggression in Ethiopia. "You can't kill the United Nations, even with a battle-ax," he insists. "The people of the world would never allow this organization to quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: I Fear It Not | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...book, we should hit back at those who are hitting at us. It doesn't fit with my philosophy to put Marquess of Queensberry rules on us when a Chinese thug is cracking us on the back of the head with an ax ... Debate whether 300,000 Chinks who crossed that border were interventionists or aggressors is hard to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Hangar Talk | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

Reuther wanted much more than that. Regulation W, said he, was a "rich man's racket" which made it impossible for the workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Strength Through Pain | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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