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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This phrase in the Vatican's official transTation did not mean that the Pope knew what the Communists had done to Mindszenty but was not free to reveal it. In his Italian draft, the Pope used the phrase influenze inconjessabili-unspeakable influences. What these were, said a Vatican official, the Pope did not know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: When God Is in Exile | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Acheson sat down and made notes on what he thought the U.S. reply should be to a proposal it had never officially received. Next day, he went over his draft with President Truman, who, like his Secretary of State, only knew what he read in the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Diplomacy by Handout | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

What, Taft demanded, did Tobin think? Did Tobin think when he helped draft the bill that he was or was not giving the President injunctive power in emergency strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Knees High, Elbows Out | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...participated in drafting the bill," Taft pointed out. "What did you intend your lawyers to draw?" Tobin, who had actually directed the drawing of the bill, still tried to duck. Taft kept after him until, cornered, Tobin said: "We did not draft a bill that had to do with emergency disputes ... I am not an attorney and did not know what the answer would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Knees High, Elbows Out | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Cabinet handed down its decision on the final, watered-down draft, Weizmann was waiting outside in the corridor. Suddenly his friend, Sir Mark Sykes, burst out of the cabinet room waving the Balfour Declaration. "Dr. Weizmann," he cried, "it's a boy." "Well," reminisces Weizmann, "I did not like the boy at first. He was not the one I expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: With Psalms & Spades | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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