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...future, the Soviets may make legitimate movements toward the settlement of international disputes. They may work honestly to effect a Truman-Stalin meeting without ballyhoo and propagandizing motives. This would be an excellent beginning to East-West agreements, and it must be earnestly followed up by Washington. But even this could not solve the world's troubles. There can be no side-sweeping Truman-Stalin "deals." Only a concert of Western powers can bargain with Russia. If Truman and Stalin tried to compromise their way to a more comfortable "peace," the patient work of the North Atlantic group of powers...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the Communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Now that the Kettle Is Ours | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...East-West Chess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Your analysis of the China Nationalist position is a masterpiece. When it is fully realized that the East-West situation in Europe is merely the feint, it may be too late to prevent China from being our "coup de grace" in this world game of chess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Almost visibly and audibly gnashing their teeth, the Communists denounced the West-sector elections as "illegal" because of "fraud and terror." They blocked mail deliveries across the East-West line.* They put East Berlin's fire department under their tough police chief, Paul Mark-graf, to make sure that it would not go to any non-Communist fires. They set up new restrictions against automotive traffic, and even withdrew railway cars which had served West Berlin for garbage removal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Sunshine | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

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