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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wins-the Kuomintang or the Communists. It is a question of the Chinese people. . . . The time of the Kuomintang tutelage is over. . . . A coalition government must be set up immediately. . . . The first flame of world conflagration is burning today in our land. It must be quenched lest it destroy the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crisis | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...looked as if the good dictator, like the bad ones, only created what he wanted most to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: How Bad Is the Best? | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Last week a French court upheld him. The court ruled: the artist is the sole owner of all his work as long as it is unsigned, and he has the right to change or even destroy it. The Vollard heirs were ordered to return the 807 Rouaults to him in a month, or pay him 100,000 francs (now $840) apiece. The court ordered Rouault to pay the heirs a sum yet to be determined to wipe off Vollard's bill. Rouault expects to "finish up" only about 30 of the paintings. Among other things, Rouault has gone increasingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unfinished Business | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...tantamount to election, puts in jeopardy all the advances made since 1941. If the dream of a new South is not to end in nightmare, then the people of Georgia must quietly resolve to defend with all their strength the social legislation of the past five years-and to destroy the antiquated unit-country system at their first opportunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Fruit | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

...Comrade Kravchenko," a Party bigwig warned him, "you are going to the country of the most highly developed and rapacious capitalism. The counter-espionage of the FBI is subtle and inescapable. . . . The counter-revolutionary and capitalist press, especially of Hearst and McCormick, will try to destroy your faith. . . . Do you realize the full meaning of the confidence placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to All That | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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