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Britain's help began to take on clearer form last week. It was clear that Britons had landed at Crete, and some other Greek islands. In London a ?5,000,000 loan to Greece was announced. The R. A. F. was really active. Gloster Gladiator fighters patrolled over Greek cities, and bombers hit at Naples, Brindisi, Taranto and Albanian bases. The first British casualty was announced: an R. A. F. gunner, wounded in the head by what was described as a "stray bullet" from an Italian plane. British naval vessels arrived in Athens from Alexandria, carrying a few troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Murk | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...that the 1940 campaign, unlike most U. S. political battles, reached into almost every aspect of U. S. life, became clearer as election day and the future approached with locomotive speed. In the long debate over the Third Term before the Chicago Convention, there had been no discussion of the long-term effects on the U. S. of a continuation and extension of New Deal policies. That debate was narrowed to the question: Would Franklin Roosevelt run again?* Last week The Christian Century came out for Wendell Willkie on the ground that a third term for Franklin Roosevelt involved incalculable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Willkie's Issue | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...these days of crisis, the free press is more than ever a vital force in making our democracy a living, working success. Therefore, TIME is seeking, in this series of advertisements, to give all college students a clearer picture of what the press in general, and TIME in particular, is doing to keep the people of this nation safe, strong, free, and united...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where U.S. newsmen block the road of Japanese ambition | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...hope and freedom," cried the King. He concluded: "And here I would like to tell the sorrowing parents how deeply we grieve for them over the loss of their children in the ship torpedoed without warning in mid-Atlantic (see p. 21). Surely the world could have no clearer proof of the wickedness against which we fight than this foul deed. . . . Let us then put our trust, as I do, in God and in the unconquerable spirit of the British people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Week | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...Richard Carlson). When war comes he marches off to battle, endures the black days of Valley Forge. Meanwhile Jane returns to the house of her Tory brother (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). The ending leaves Matt and Jane reconciled not so much by the bright future of peace as by the clearer understanding which peace will bring to their personal conflicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 16, 1940 | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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