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...British Case. Today many British liberals favor immediate Dominion status for India. Some favor immediate independence. But today, also, many liberals make perhaps the strongest possible case for extreme caution in Britain's India policy. The fact that the same case is adopted hypocritically by some archimperialists obviously does not impair its merits as a case. It rests on the undeniable major premise that the wrongs of the imperialist past cannot be undone, that present and future are what matter. The text is taken from the inscription on the $10,000,000 palace in which the Viceroy waited last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: How Much Longer? | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...radio code called for particular caution in quiz programs, interviews, and forums, lest enemy agents broadcast information disguised in innocent-seeming phrases. Most such programs on the big networks had already been modified; e.g., for several weeks, questions from the floor in America's Town Meeting of the Air have had to be submitted before being allowed on the air. But there were still plenty of pluggable holes in local programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: First Code | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Caution. In Kansas City, Kans., a merchant was warned by the city that the law forbade him to sell cap pistols or slingshots to minors, but allowed him to sell them shotguns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1941 | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Eduardo saw that she sat at table with such cinema bigshots as Winfield Sheehan (then head of Fox), Sol Wurtzel, et al.-but only for a respectable minimum of time. This caution earned him the jeering nickname "Mama Cansino." But his tantalizing strictness worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: California Carmen | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Radio is dynamite. That is a word with a Greek derivation and an alarming connotation. The Greek word means power, and it is the explosive power, the dynamite of radio, that has at once stirred such extravagant hopes and bred such caution over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dynamite at Harvard | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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