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...have you back, Winnie!" someone shouted. "He's getting a bit old -oughter keep his trap shut!" growled a waterfront voice. Up piped a soldier: "He's done a damned good job for us in America, almost as good as he did during the war." A dockhand yelled: "Chuck him in the sea, the old bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chuck Him? | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Communist François Billoux, youngish (41) ex-dockhand, ex-Deputy, now a French Committee Minister Without Portfolio, pledged his party to cooperation with all other parties, no matter how Rightist, so long as they had not sold out to Germany. Said he, reversing the old Communist tenet that stormy weather is good weather: "We do not want civil war. We fear that civil war might completely destroy France. We could not build Communism on a ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Win Friends | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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