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...sponsored Iraq, filed a "friendly protest" in Washington, objecting that Palestine already had enough "strangers." The Arabs had some reason to be baffled. They had understood that President Roosevelt, at his post-Yalta meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, had promised not to upset or seriously disturb the Arab position. Now the White House took the ground that since no written record of any such promise existed, the promise did not exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Unholy Crisis | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...rendered permanently infantile by his own gentleness, by his family's standing in their small New England town, and above all by his bickering, manless sisters, the widow Hester (Moyna Macgill) and the semi-invalid Lettie (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Lettie in particular takes care that life shall never disturb him with a breath of fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 27, 1945 | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...much for Artist Nichols. Said he: "Some of these paintings disturb me. In Art Heritage I suspect that Mr. Duren is looking with a critical eye upon my Nebraska friends and neighbors. If [he] is ashamed or bored or scornful [of Nebraska life], may I clarify his erroneous thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: War In the Corn | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...Harold? Who was the man, who at the moment when British socialism had scarcely begun its momentous job, broadcast views so sure to disturb moderate Britons? To some, slim, aloof Professor Laski is just an "inoffensive scholar" (19 books and innumerable articles). To some, he is socialism's No. 1 intellectual soapboxer. To others, in his own words, he is a combination Guy Fawkes and Trotsky, a "reincarnation of Palmer, the Poisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Official Philosopher? | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Political tremors in Sinkiang disturb all the neighboring countries. Behind the current seismic shocks is a history that goes back to 1934, when China, then already started on her life & death struggle with Japan, could only stand by as the Soviet Union virtually set up a condominium over the vast province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Palpitations of the Heartland | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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