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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madrasis could scarcely have chosen a better way to honor the Mahatma. "If I were appointed dictator for one hour for all India," Gandhi once wrote, "the first thing I would do would be to close without compensation all liquor shops, destroy all toddy palms*. . . Exceptions would be made for Europeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Noble Experiment | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Vishinsky proposed an international control body under the Security Council (where Russia has a veto) to supervise a general 33⅓% armament reduction. He also repeated Russia's demand for the immediate outlawing of the atomic bomb. That was the old story -Russia wants the U.S. to destroy its bombs but at the same time Russia refuses to accept an international control and inspection system, proposed by the U.S., which would see to it that the bomb's "outlawing" is adhered to by all parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Story of a Cause | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Keeley Institute uses injections of gold chloride, which do not cause nausea, but are supposed to destroy the appetite for liquor by some secret action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Drink for Drunks | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...declared that 1) the Progressive Party is not controlled by Communists; 2) Communism and Wallace's so-called "progressive capitalism" have many common social objectives, and he welcomed "the support of those who believed in such objectives"; 3) he would "never tolerate those whose purpose it is to destroy our government by force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Puff of DDT | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...between this character and those who eventually reaped a murderous harvest for their countries after taking refuge within a liberal constitution . . . You must show him, and prove him, to be what he is-primarily an opportunistic politician who is giving aid and comfort to those who are pledged to destroy our system of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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