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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I would suggest that if the democracies are sincere in their intentions toward the peace of the world, they appoint a commission to study the spiritual development of the Russian people as a people and as represented by their great and spiritual literature. Proceeding on the theory that the way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

WILLIAM L. PATTERSON Secretary, Public Relations Commission Communist Party of Illinois Chicago

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

For years, and especially since World War II, military men have sternly urged the nation to adopt universal military training. Six months ago a presidential commission of nine civilians began a study of the subject. This week they made their report. Their reluctant but unanimous conclusion, arrived at in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Reluctant, Unanimous | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

The make-up of the commission was almost as interesting as its 448-page report. The chairman: Physicist Karl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The members: Joseph (Mission to Moscow) Davies, ex-Ambassador to Russia and sometime apologist for the Soviet Union; the Rev. Daniel Poling, noted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Reluctant, Unanimous | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

The horrors of atomic and bacteriological warfare have largely faded from the public mind in recent months. People were completely fed up with atomic terrors in the months that followed Hiroshima. The affairs of the world move too swiftly for even such a sensation as the atom bomb to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winner Takes Nothing | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

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