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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To date U.S. policy has been negative. Much of the criticism of the American Military Government is misconceived because it has been directed at the execution of the policy, whereas it should have been directed at the policy itself or the lack of policy. It is unanimously agreed that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Policy for Germany | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

While promising full cooperation in the campaign, Reynolds and Durant both stated last night that responsibility for the planning and execution of the program rests entirely with the students. The University will cooperate with any action taken by the students but they will not initiate the undertaking.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Cut Action Student Decision, University States | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

Hate & Hunger. The city fathers of Tegelen, Holland, considered this spring of 1946, decided that it was not a season for rejoicing; they abolished the annual spring carnival. At Berchtesgaden, a crocus was pushing up through the ruins of Adolf Hitler's villa. Also pushing their way to light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Troubled Resurrection | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

On Wake it was worst of all. There the Japanese had dug up the bodies of 42 U.S. servicemen and civilians, buried together in a common grave before the island fell. The bodies have disappeared. In another mass grave, where 98 civilian prisoners were hastily buried after their execution in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASUALTIES: Last Landing | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

The only serene person in Jamaica was Percival Bennett, a convicted murderer awaiting execution in St. Catherine prison. His sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment, after the hangman had answered Norman Manley's strike call.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMAICA: Labor & Lunatics | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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