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...Russian delegation, sore over the admission of Argentina, left the meeting. Much of the press went into a tailspin. It was a bad day, but not nearly so bad as the headlines suggested. As the delegates left the hall, TIME'S Anatole Visson got through the crush to one of the calmest men in San Francisco. "What do you think?" asked Visson. Lord Halifax bent down with a tired smile. "I don't think this is the end of the world," he said. This quotation ended TIME'S story, which may not have been the best...
...Have Your Bath." A moan went up from the crowd. By the thousands, his followers began to file by the dead man, who was draped in white khadi (homespun cotton) and sprinkled with rose petals. The crush became so great that the body was finally put on a tilted slab on an outside balcony, and bathed in floodlights so that all might see. At the head burned five lamp wicks representing the five elements-air, light, water, earth and fire...
...November 1940 came the fateful disagreement over the postwar swag. Stalin demanded bases on the Dardanelles and staked his claim on the Persian Gulf area as "the center of the aspirations of the Soviet Union." Hitler balked. The next month he issued his directive for "Operation Barbarossa": "to crush Soviet Russia in a quick campaign...
When the Japanese surrendered, the Reds claimed the surrender was to them. The people ask: "And who will crush the Reds, who will beat them, Father? Tell us, for the love...
...early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security program the U.N. opens the door for bitter civil...