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...Dutch know that they have a hard road ahead. Viewing their Indonesian empire more as businessmen than as politicians, they are quite willing to give it political independence, assuming that the Indonesians will not disturb heavy Dutch investments (prewar estimate: nearly $2 billion). They feel keenly that they cannot be isolated or made immune from the ideological and economic storms that trouble the world. But the Dutch also remember that they have faced danger for centuries-the danger of the sea and the danger of a land divided by intense religious differences. They count on Wilhelmina to help them through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Woman in the House | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...India despite the threats of civil war. When a British official in Delhi last week said, "This is the most important British diplomatic effort of the century," he had in mind the danger that a failure to settle the Indian problem would keep the whole East in turmoil and disturb international relations throughout the world by presenting Rus sia with an opportunity to increase her influence among Asia's people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Morrison's picture may not disturb the "just another weapon" school of thought which relaxes securely in its belief that defenses will fix everything. But Louis N. Ridenour shows the impotency of anything under one hundred percent defense, and the physical impossibility of anything over ninety percent defense. It is the huge destructive power of the bomb that makes even ten percent efficiency economical from an attacker's viewpoint. For, per square mile destroyed, an atomic bomb of the Hiroshima class is six times cheaper than other explosives, according to General Arnold, and possibly up to one hundred times cheaper...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Bookshelf | 4/20/1946 | See Source »

...order would not affect the bulk of U.S. servicemen, who avoid fraternization as a matter of choice. Still less would it disturb those who seriously pursue it. Tokyo now has dozens of "one-night inns" to which any G.I. who wants to can find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: By the Gods | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Roosevelt then tried to contact his Naval Chief, Admiral Harold R. Stark. "Betty" Stark was at the theater. The President decided not to disturb him lest it cause "public alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEARL HARBOR: Fireside Scene | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

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