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...glistening in the hot glare of the klieg lights, New Jersey's ruddy Representative J. (for John) Parnell Thomas squinted through the clutter of newsreel cameras and microphones. Beyond the press tables, 391 spectators filled the big, gloomy caucus room to capacity. Outside, hundreds more strained against a cordon of Capitol Hill policemen...
...survive the next five years. Even students in American colleges will remember the lost generation in British and French leadership after the last war; the generation that might have filled the moral breach at the time of the Rhineland, or Auschluss, or Munich. Enlarge that picture to the entire cordon of east-European states and project it fifteen or twenty years into the future. If tuberculosis and the vitality consuming hunt for food are allowed to divert the best minds of east-Europe and China away from their training, these countries must be prepared to surrender their greatest hopes...
...only hope, more a counsel of despair than a hope, is for a West European federation-including France, the Low Countries, a de-Francoed Spain, Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs cordon). "This," wrote Koestler, "is not the occasion to discuss the merits and demerits of such a plan; I mention it merely to avoid closing on a note of despair. For so desperate has the situation in Europe become that pessimism, like defeatism in times of war, is no longer permissible...
...Palestine story is most often told in the language of politics or professional philanthropy. Last week when the largest group of European Jews ever to sail in a single refugee ship tried to pierce the British cordon around Palestine, a TIME correspondent told the story in human terms. He cabled this report of what happens when men crazed by fear find obstacles in their...
Life at Sukhum. When the Reds punched into Berlin, they threw a cordon of troops around the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, whence the news of uranium fission had first startled the scientific world in 1939. They went down into the cellar, dismantled the big cyclotron, packed it carefully off to Stalinland. Among the men they carried off was Baron Manfred von Ardenne, 39, a brilliant physicist...