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"It's comforting to remember that exactly 100 years ago, in the historically discontented year of 1848, Britain was going through one of the most serious economic crises of the 19th Century; yet only three years later, at the Crystal Palace celebration, Britons were toasting their unquestioned supremacy in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

They are constructing a workers' state, or more precisely, a trade union state. Even this is not quite precise in contemporary U.S. terms. Though the sun never sets over the lands to which their sway extends, the Labor Party looks inward. The fate of Burma disturbs it less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REVOLUTIONISTS WITHOUT WHOOP-DE-DOO | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

New President. The darkest blot on the Philippine idyl is the two-year-old insurrection of the Hukbalahaps* of central Luzon. Although they are led by Communists, most Huks (pronounced hooks) are still (as the Chinese Communists once pretended to be) basically discontented farmers. The main demand of the Huks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Why Carry a Pistol? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Millions of U.S. small-towners remember the institution called Chautauqua, usually with affection. For over half a century it gave to the culture-curious and the culture-hungry a tent show of live entertainment that ranged from the Kaffir Boys' Choir to a course on the music of Johann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uplift under the Big Top | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Very few people in Ireland regret the election of Mr. McBride to Parliament for they recognize his personal ability, but they do fear any further successes for his party, for they consist almost entirely of discontented left-wing De Valera-ites or members of the Irish Republican Army, which openly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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