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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staggering along on a hand-to-mouth basis. We in America certainly have a great stake in getting these nations back on their feet and on a self-supporting basis, if for no other reason than that we can then stop our own expenditures for foreign relief. To re-establish these nations will, however, cost money. But it is worth doing, if in exchange for our aid, the nations of Western Europe agree, for example, to integrate themselves, not in a military or a linguistic sense, but into an economic arrangement which has the possibility of life and growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: QUID PRO QUO | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Their duty as the first office-holders under the new constitution, the Council felt, was "to carry out that constitution to the letter in order to establish precedent for future Councils and prevent any section from becoming dead letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Votes Warren, Harrison Out of Office | 5/14/1947 | See Source »

Scheduled to expand its field of operations into a 16-debate program next year, the inter-House loop was set up by the Debate Council this year and since its inception has been laboring steadily to establish debating as a permanent part of inter-House activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Debaters Edge Wintrhop to Win House Prize | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Down the Red Flag. March 1944 is the beginning of Togliatti's experiment in "respectable" revolution. Mussolini's regime is dead, and the Italian people squirm to the light-dazed, vaguely jubilant, cheering the U.S. as liberator. This is a unique opportunity for the West to establish a healthy Italian democracy. But the Communists see an opportunity, too. Many of them want to start a revolution immediately. Under the heavy March rains, Italy's mud seems like the very clay of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...valedictory press conference last week, Chen said he had been misunderstood. His monopoly system was a device for government revenue only. Besides, said Chen: "I never forgot private enterprise. I always intended to re-establish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Formosa Valedictory | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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