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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of the Hitler-Stalin pact, Malraux finally broke with the Communist Apocalypse. He realized that "what I wanted to defend for twenty years could not be defended by Communists." During the war, he fought in the French underground. It was then that his search grew most desperate. In his wartime novel, La Lutte avec I'Ange (The Struggle with the Angel-so far published only in a limited Swiss edition), he cried out: "Has the notion of man a meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Malraux's Hope | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...eager emanations of anti-Americana, Radio Moscow had recently quoted the Montreal Times as writing that U.S.-Canadian military ties were merely part of Canada's "final subservience to the U.S.A." It was true-the Montreal Times had indeed published suggestions as to how the city could defend itself against a possible attack from south of the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Lion & the Dollar Kings | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

King & Knave. It tries to appease the rebels and agrees with them in principle. "We can only be grateful if America is prepared in any way to make it easier for us to defend our security. But no one has tried harder than the Government to reduce our dependence. . . . The idea that we are somehow bound politically to follow American policy is . . . false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: In the Cards? | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...first signs of Young Communist League disruption appeared and by 1941 the ASU was a diseredited front. Out of its ruins emerged four non-Communist groups, all calling for aid to the Allies while the ASU carried a banner shouting "imperialist war": Student League for Progressive Action, Student Defenders of Democracy, Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, and Democracy's Volunteers. Amid great oclat the Student Merger Convention at Harvard in December of 1941 set up the Student League of America--doomed from the start to dissolution before the long arm of Selective Service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 5/29/1947 | See Source »

SINCE THE ARABS TOOK THE ABSURD ATTITUDE THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND THEIR PALESTINE HOMES AGAINST THE CRIMINAL ASSAULTS OF ZIONISM, AN UNPROVOKED CAMPAIGN WAS WAGED AGAINST THEM, WIELDING THE DEADLIEST OF WEAPONS RIDICULE. IN YOUR ISSUE OF APRIL 21, APROPOS OF NOTHING, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF THE WEAPONS OF ZIONISM, YOU HELD UP TO RIDICULE AN ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR AND A REFINED GENTLEMAN, THE PRESIDENT OF LEBANON. YOUR SLURRIOUS REMARKS ARE NOT LESS OBVIOUS BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE SUBTLE. BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL VOTES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES NOR DO WE VICTIMIZE THE FANATIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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