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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Council agreed to end press and postal censorship, warning publishers to toe the anti-Nazi line. It restored a limited sort of rail service, relaxed the galling ban on travel between the U.S., Russian, British and French zones. Now food, fuel and people could begin to move between those drum-tight compartments. Finally the Council sent secret "recom mendations" to the four Governments on recognition of the newly broadened Provisional government...
...Council had only one purpose: to begin translating the Big Three agreement made in principle at Potsdam into workable, specific understandings. And Potsdam was a sequel of Teheran and Yalta. If the failure at London proved to be permanent, then the Big Three's whole structure of postwar peace-the United Nations Organization, Bretton Woods, etc.-would be doomed to failure. The "one world" of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin would be the world of blocs, East v. West, whose outlines showed nakedly in London. The spectacle alarmed everyone-especially the conferees who refused to assume that the better world...
...American flag lines in Holland). Thus the Dutch subscribed to the "Five Freedoms" drafted (but not adopted by all the countries) last year at the Chicago International Civil Aviation Conference (TIME, Dec. 11). Result: American Airlines Overseas, Inc., formerly American Export Airlines, certified to fly to Amsterdam, may begin a survey flight next week...
...will roll out before Christmas 75,000 aluminum wagons, scooters, and a tricky combination-a toddler-tricycle. Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. started to make bicycle parts three months ago, will deliver a few bicycles in October. But it will be November before Murray Ohio and most other manufacturers begin mass production of velocipedes, tricycles, small automobiles and other wheeled toys. S. L. Allen & Co. was ready to make Flexible Flyer sleds again, believed it could turn out about 10% of its normal prewar production before snow flies...
...Where Are You Going To?" When he reached 21, Service shipped for Canada to begin his life as a rolling stone. Freedom was his obsession, and in the New World he found plenty of it. One day, in the brawling San Francisco of Barbary Coast days, he stared at his last $10 bill, and asked himself: "Young fellow, where are you going...