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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain and the other Dominions? Balance for Britain? In Britain, no less than in Canada, there is a strong belief that the Commonwealth & Empire can prosper best in a worldwide economic and political system. But Britons, tried and worn by war, share Jan Smuts's strongly expressed concern for their home island, confronting a world in which Russia and the U.S. will be both powerful and power-conscious. And they look to the Dominions, joined in a common policy with Britain, to balance the world scales in Britain's favor. Thus Canada's attitude is supremely important...
...Pietro Badoglio heard of Umberto's interview he denied that it had occurred: Umberto's move threatened to precipitate a shakeup which the old Marshal has tried to avoid. Anti-Fascists, including outspoken Democrat Count Carlo Sforza and compromising Communist Palmiro Togliatti soon justified Badoglio's concern. They and other members of a six-party executive junta met at the Sorrento villa of Philosopher Benedetto Croce. They had been more inclined toward a regency around Umberto's six-year-old son, the Prince of Naples. Now they embraced Umberto as an expedient to bring a "complete...
...Catholics criticized the window as art, complained that the design was not particularly appropriate. Jesuit Father John LaFarge (son of famed Painter John LaFarge) called the window "unobjectionable." "It does not mean," he added, "that the Blessed Mother is taking a partisan stand, but that she feels a maternal concern for our men in service." Last week the Navy ordered Designer Burnham to remove the warship from his design, substitute the Infant Jesus...
Jews and Arabs both knew that the Zionist outlaws were hitting at Britain's pro-Arab policy. The British knew it, too, but their first concern was to hold their place in the oil-rich, strategically important Arab world of the Middle East. Tensely all factions awaited a crucial decision: whether the British, Mr. Roosevelt's implied promise notwithstanding (TIME, March 20), would soon stop Jewish immigration to Palestine, as provided in the famed White Paper...
...reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie's discovery that she is pregnant and that she wants to bear Tracy's child. Miss Smith handles well the scenes in the Anderson household, their pride in Nonnie as the most promising member of their educated family, their affectionate concern for her and their stupefied distress at the ghastly events that begin when Tracy, drunk, sick, increasingly demoralized, tries to buy a black husband for her. The town of Maxwell in the windless heat of Georgia midsummer, with a revival meeting in full swing, with nice girls (white) also discovering...