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The formula was in full application last week. Britain no longer aggressively expanding her empire could scarcely count on firm U.S. support so remote a corner of the world as Irans northwest corner, Azerbaijan. Because the Russians knew this well the men of the Red Army who occupy northern Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Rhythm Recurs | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Both were wrong. Next day Cairo's crooked streets spawned more trouble. More stores, Arab as well as foreign, were looted, and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria were set afire. Doughty Premier Nokrashy Pasha personally seized two pillagers by the scruff of the neck, had them arrested. By the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEAR EAST: Eruption | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

All of them got bawled out on occasion; all of them learned to fear the crooked forefinger Henry Stimson shook at them when he was mad. All down the military line, the old Secretary demanded performance and got it. Before he was through, it was the greatest Army on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Happy Birthday | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

The broad, modern streets, planned after the 1923 earthquake as both thoroughfares and firebreaks, stretched emptily. The squalid, crooked back alleys, so planned three centuries ago by the Shogun Ieyasu for defensive fighting, no longer crawled with humanity.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Modan City | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Out of the Night (PRC Pictures), which suggests an infinitely diluted yet engaging version of Hamlet, is the story of an intelligent, intuitive youth (James Lydon), whose dreams cause him to suspect that his father did not die by accident. He further suspects that the man (Warren William) who is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: B-Hive | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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