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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply are for Russia!" roared Texas' Tom Connally. "What do you want us to do-just sit down and let Russia absorb the world and do nothing about it?" Equally annoyed but more restrained, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg chided Wallace: "I cannot condone your conduct in going about insisting that your country ... is bent on world conquest in one form or another." But in two hours of shouted questions and evasive answers, Henry Wallace had one response which nobody challenged. Said Henry: "I think for her own interests Russia would be utterly foolish to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Next Witness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Russians were undertaking a strategic withdrawal from Europe. This attitude was balanced by a note of uneasy caution. Many observers found that by & large in their press and radio the Communists were being their usual difficult selves. Said U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery: "The flowers of peace cannot be expected to bloom in the poisoned atmosphere of lies and distortions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Positions for Paris | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Elli had a very hard journey. Her party was forced to walk for the first two days, and many of the women broke down and were left by the wayside, and Elli does not know their fate . . . The officer in charge said: "If you cannot get along, stay here and go 'kaputt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Six Who Came Back | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...many orchestra musicians explain that the technique is an extremely illuminating one that assists them greatly in performing complicated rhythms or melodies, especially those encountered in modern works. At any rate, the musicians of the Boston Symphony will have no doubt when Munch gives his downbeat--something which cannot be said for his predecessor...

Author: By F. BRUCE Lewis, | Title: Charles Munch Becomes New Conductor of Boston Symphony This September | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...They could take German industry completely out of the hands of the notorious private cartels and nationalize it under strict controls. Thus far, the U.S. has been able to prevent nationalization on the pretext that German workers would labor more efficiently for their old masters. If the foreign ministers cannot find a workable arrangement for four-power control of German industry, the West should at least end the present sorry policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Wind | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

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