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...London flew Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to give King George VI a firsthand report of the Big Three meeting. Then, back at No. 10 Downing Street, he waited for the election count. Next evening, when defeat was sure, he went back to Buckingham Palace to resign and hand over to the King the seals of office. His Majesty offered him the Order of the Garter. Churchill refused the dignity. An hour later he issued a statement...
From TIME'S Berlin staff came a firsthand report of Berlin, eleven weeks after its capture by the Russians and two weeks after the arrival of U.S. and British occupation forces...
...basis of his own firsthand knowledge, plus detailed reports from FCC and OWI, Albright pieced together a summary: Kagawa continues to express himself vigorously, sometimes without sufficient data on such touchy questions as the U.S. desecration of Jap bodies. His statements are shrewdly edited and used by the Japanese Government, but he himself has broadcast no anti-U.S. propaganda. Kagawa continues to preach, to organize relief work and to condemn warfare (both Japanese and U.S.). The Albright conclusion : Dr. Kagawa is "an earnest Christian leader who may yet be the hope of Japan...
...some of the visiting scientists, it was a first opportunity for firsthand examination of science as a monolithic state enterprise. Except for independent academies in Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, all Soviet science is under the direction of the Soviet Academy. Within this organization are 76 research institutes, 11 independent laboratories, six observatories, 42 meteorological and astronomical stations, 73 libraries and 16 museums. The Soil Research Institute in Moscow alone is an eight-story building covering more than a city block...
High Churchman Wand will bring to his new job both scholarship and a firsthand knowledge of a clergyman's daily grind. London will also have a Bishop who speaks his mind. Sample: "If we wish to reform the nation, we must begin at the top with statesmen and politicians. I would like to see us governed by a government truly democratic . . . there should be an end to this outside government where the Prime Minister and his ministers go to Parliament with their minds already made up for them by outside influences...