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Impatient & Infirm. In short, Byrnes is a practical politician with the limitations and assets of that breed. Among the limitations is the habit of not making decisions until they are forced upon him. While Byrnes has been saddled with negotiations on Europe, no U.S. policy ha's been made in wide areas of the world. The U.S. Palestine policy as enunciated by Truman was mere mischievous vote-catching, as unrealistic in its extreme pro-Zionism as the Grand Mufti's antiSemitism. No one is really making policy on Latin America. On China, a key piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Year of the Bullbat | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...once-gay whoopers learned to shun civilization. Whenever the white man's guns appeared, they fled deeper into the wilderness. Now their remnants breed in some unknown place in Canada's far north. This tactic of despair may be their final undoing: they are not Arctic birds, and are probably unsuited to far northern breeding grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No More Minuets | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Whether improving the breed of their horses or strengthening the physique of their potential warriors, the Russians have a kind of competitive spirit the West would find hard to duplicate. For instance, as a Soviet futbol eleven trots out on the field, its players sing a dedication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Physkultura Hurrah! | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...This of course is exactly what our philosophy and propaganda aims at. To return to the Land ... to liquidate the racial inferiority complex and breed a healthy, normal, earthbound race of peasants. These Hebrew Tarzans are what we have bargained for. So why am I frightened of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Koestler on Palestine | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Reefer Ring | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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