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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief effect: closer control of the once-powerful German colony in Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Colombia Joins | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...British-and the A.E.F.-more or less healed the sores of France. Responsible Britons think that the Americans' departure this time will do as much for Britain. In the meantime, they do not forget a fact which is probably more significant than the current irritations in Britain: the closer they get to the fighting fronts, the better do British and U.S. soldiers get along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Poor Relations | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...House. Jimmy Byrnes has now actually become what so many of his predecessors were wrongly touted to be: a genuine Assistant President. Other intimates hesitate to say that the little ex-Senator and ex-Justice, who has grown steadily in Mr. Roosevelt's esteem and confidence, is now closer to the President than is Harry Hopkins. But Jimmy sees him oftener in daytime than Harry does. One big difference: Hopkins' after-dinner sessions with the President are almost always about war problems on which the President makes his own decisions next morning. Byrnes gets most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rendezvous with Destiny | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

None paid closer heed than soft-faced, whip-lipped Heinrich Himmler (TIME, Oct. 18). As the Minister of Interior, appointed less than three months ago (see cut), he stood alert to nip the rise of "any traitor chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Twenty Years After | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...Farther north, powerful Russian columns inched closer to the German strongholds at Kiev, Gomel, Vitebsk. German defenses forbade a quick breakthrough. But the steady punching kept the worried German command from shifting its troops from these threatened cities to the crumbling line in the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Road Leads Backward | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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