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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great achievement (see INTERNATIONAL). All doubts about the Big Three's ability to cooperate, in peace as well as war, seemed now to have been swept away. On the basis of the Big Three's communique, no citizen of the U.S., the U.S.S.R., or Great Britain could complain that his country had been sold down the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moment In History | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Windsor shopkeepers could not complain about the buying spree; a sale is a sale, and in normal times they rely heavily on Detroiters as purchasers of jewelry, furs, woolen clothing and blankets, imported china. Windsor housewives wailed that Americans were not only greedy but "pushy." But customs men claimed that more & more Canadian women go into the U.S. for such goods as infants' wear, towels, women's underwear (all scarce in Canada), that they frequently evade Canadian customs rules by wearing their purchases home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Rush to Buy | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Sometimes he screamed with pain. One night he was tied, head down, against the bars, and left with lighted cigarets between his toes. Jailers never bothered to investigate, and he was too terrified to complain. But last week, after he had been found dead in the tank's shower room, his teen-age cellmates callously told his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: It Happened in the U. S. A. | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...British Government complain of a hostile U.S. press, asked Winston Churchill last week, "when we have here in this country witnessed such a melancholy exhibition as that provided by some of our most time-honored and responsible journals. . . ." Although the Prime Minister made "journals" plural, everyone in his House of Commons audience (see FOREIGN NEWS) knew that he had particular reference to the London Times-which has lately had considerable to say about Britain's intervention in Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thunderer on the Left | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

That was enough. Dutifully, the Latin ambassadors decided against Argentina. Then they went back to their chancelleries to complain about indigestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: No Cinderella | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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