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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...messages showed, the Jap Embassy received instructions on how to destroy codes and other confidential material. On Dec. 2, Washington intercepted a message from Canton to Tokyo: "If hostilities are to begin, we here are all prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In History | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...position, or in making his arguments jibe with his new conclusions. Rather, they tended to justify his original promerger stand. Many of his suddenly real ized objections to merger were just as valid on Dec. 8, 1944. But now he said: "We should be certain that we do not destroy the strengths of our present sys tem in accepting a new and untried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MERGER: One-Yard Line | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...think that some people over here imagine that Socialists are out to destroy freedom. We in the Labor Party ... are in line with those who fought for Magna Carta and . . . the Declaration of Independence. ... In the ranks of our party in the House of Commons are at least 40 practicing journalists. There are several clergymen, many local preachers, plenty of Protestants, some Catholics and some Jews. We are not likely, therefore, to attack freedom of religion or freedom of the press. . . . Our party today is drawn from all classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Pilgrim's Progress | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...question that faces us today is not so much how can we control this new and devastating force let loose on the world by science as what kind of world society is necessary in a world where a few bombs might destroy utterly great cities and the work of centuries of human endeavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Two v. the Atom | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Said Idler respecteth Bard Jonson--and bard Ursula--and being not of mind to destroy the aura of the era doth present said play unexpurgated. They do prove themselves Leatherheads, for they do Overdo said masque in Quarlous manner, guzzling ale in lien of Cokes, articulating so to Troubleall, and showing more than respectable Edgeworth of petticoat which scarce would Winwife, much lest two matriculated freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Bluestockings Fret at Ben Jonson's Bawdy Pranks | 11/13/1945 | See Source »

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