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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three meetings as the mediator between the other two; at Yalta he had been made chairman of the conference in recognition of this talent. Harry Truman, in no position to fill such a role, seemed determined that all three of the Big Three should talk and bargain on an equal footing. He specifically avoided a preliminary Big Two meeting with Churchill; he did not want to go to Berlin as half of an Anglo-American bloc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On His Way | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Obediently, Goodyear strikers, whose strike had cost the U.S. 272,000 tires, an equal number of tubes, trooped back to work. But Firestone employes made no move to follow suit. At week's end it seemed probable that, to restore full production, other Akron plants would have to be seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fire Season | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Engineers have found that Okinawa can hold three times as many airfields as originally planned, with a paved area equal to 400 miles of two-lane highways. The smallest field will handle twice as much traffic as New York's LaGuardia Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: Plans & Planes | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...presented to Congress and Moslem leaders, the Wavell Plan awarded to Indians all posts (except Defense) in India's Executive Council-the equivalent of a national cabinet-"on a balanced representation of the main communities, including equal proportions of Moslems and caste Hindus." The door was left open for the native states, but there would be no coercion. Dominion status, as promised in the Cripps proposals, was still the goal. The Wavell Plan brought it almost within reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Soldier of Peace | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Next, Dominion Status. The stakes were greater than India itself, for they included the Empire and the world. The Wavell Plan was the first step toward Dominion status. When that was accomplished, India would become an equal partner in the Commonwealth, free (if she so desired) to secede from the Crown. Was Britain not risking "the brightest jewel of the British Crown?" Indians were not Britons linked by ties of blood and sentiment to the islands in the distant northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Soldier of Peace | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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