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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankenstein run amok, Argentine policy quickly assumes life-size proportions when it is seen that similar pacts, always manufactured under the pressure of agricultural wealth, are being negotiated with Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile. These accords will build Argentina into a totalitarian colossus of the south and cannot help but destroy any South American attempt at a healthy state system, Definitely uneasy, but completely befuddled, the United States has alternately adopted a hot and cold policy towards Argentina that has strengthened Peron and bewildered what Latin-American supporters the State Department has left. When Ambassador Braden interfered with internal Argentine politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Viva Vitriol | 3/11/1947 | See Source »

...Laws which would restrict, yes, and even make criminals of labor representatives . . . are not the sound and logical answer. . . . The silencing of leaders of a just cause does not destroy that just cause. . . . Some 1,900 years ago, the leader of the greatest cause this world has ever known was crucified. That crucifixion stands today as the symbol and inspiration of that cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crucifixion? | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...only recourse was the printing press. But the course of inflation could have been stopped after the Japanese war-"if there had been internal peace. . . . Instead of peace and reconstruction, the country was plunged into war and destruction by the Communists . . . [whose] deliberate and conscious . . . aim was to destroy the economic system so that the Government would collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Week of the Winds | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Ball shocked Republicans by bolting Dewey for Roosevelt because the latter's foreign policy was more in accord with his own. But on domestic issues, he was far from being a New Dealer. He shared Bob Taft's concern over breakneck, "dogood" legislation which he thought might destroy certain American principles, like liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On Whose Side, the Angels? | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...something had to be done, most Americans agreed. There was no consolation to be drawn from the fact that unions, in exercising their power, might also destroy themselves, as in the case of the recent 87-day strike of the Newspaper Guild against J. David Stern's Camden Courier and Post and Philadelphia Record. A disgusted Stem sold his papers; 580 strikers were left high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On Whose Side, the Angels? | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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