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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caribbean oil reserves are dwindling is old stuff and has never come true; 2) the colossal war consumption of the United Nations has no relation to the amount of oil that the world can consume in peacetime; 3) U.S. meddling in increased Middle Eastern production will merely destroy the Western Hemisphere's markets-particularly those of Good Neighbors long cultivated by high U.S. policy-without assuring excess oil in wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Oil and Policy | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...army to the task of blockading and 'guarding' the guerrilla areas, by the fact that some still hold private profit above the national interest, by the oppression of the peasantry and by the absence of a true labor movement. . . . Some Chinese reactionaries are preparing [civil war] to destroy a democratic sector in our struggle. That sector is the guerrilla bases in North Shensi and behind the enemy lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Voice from Chungking | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...that it is not futile. We who stay at home cannot take it out in direct action. . . . Let this anger be expressed in work, in sacrifice, in gratitude and in honor toward those who bear the burden. This is how we can beat Japan. This is how we can destroy the beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nature of the Enemy | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Socialist C.C.F. Leader Major James Coldwell emphatically agreed. Said he: "The genius of the British Commonwealth is its recognition of basic unity in diversity. Lord Halifax proposes that we abandon this historic principle. Such rigidity would destroy the Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Imperialism, New Style | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...liquidated as a class and as a political force. He growled that the German Left is not much better; most German Socialists have been infected with militarism. In both wars, said he, the Allies have had to fight the German people in arms. The main thing is to destroy their power to rise again: "We must realize that this is by far the greatest, most barbaric upheaval in history. We shall not escape its recurrence by half measures applied with kid gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rx for Security | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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