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What we've got to present must be more than national pride. If we are to do it, we must drop the holier-than-thou attitude both of Hoover in his "American Crusade" and of the Luce-thinking interventionists who envision an Anglo-American world. Let's not be prevented...

Author: By J. W. Ballantine, | Title: CABBAGES AND KINGS | 2/5/1942 | See Source »

Mellett's critics charge that he is an impractical idealist who runs a spy service-an accusation at least partly belied by his executive ability. His friends, vastly admiring, sometimes charge him with excessive sweet-temperedness. But at times Mellett has shown sufficient temper to scare the daylights out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship in the Offing | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

As its contribution to the current Sibelius festival, Columbia has brought out a new recording of the Second Symphony played by Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic. Whatever one may think of this symphony--which has elicited for Olin Downes the tribute of "a symbol of the ancient faiths and...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/19/1940 | See Source »

Britain is scheduled to buy 40% of U. S. plane production for the next two years. If Britain falls, the industry will still have its hands full with domestic orders. But British orders yield 20 to 30% net. Although the Vinson-Trammell profit limitation on Army and Navy plane orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Planemakers Grounded? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

> But the Arab world's biggest loss last week took place at Ankara, capital of Turkey, where the French and the Turks signed a treaty ceding to Turkey the Republic of Hatay. This 1,500-square-mile region, situated just south of the big bulge of Turkish Asia Minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Semitic Friends | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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