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Beginning in 1927, the Communists tried to win in China by bloody revolution. For eight months, May to December in 1930, I was in an area under their control down in south China. I saw firsthand their utterly ruthless purges and slaughterings of anyone who crossed their will. But they could not win converts by that method because the Chinese are basically too peace-loving and orderly a people. When the Communists in China had reached the end of their rope they
...MARCH OF TIME has been developing constantly since those early films, and today it requires a staff of close to 100 specially-trained technicians. Head man is Producer Richard de Rochemont, who headed its operations in Europe for nine years and covered the early battles of the war firsthand for TIME & LIFE. His seven camera crews have been to the ends of the earth to record the great and the near-great of our times, and their adventures would fill a column many times the length of this one. Today the MARCH OF TIME produces La Marcha del Tiempo...
...Higginbottom started the Allahabad Agricultural Institute to teach the secret of his miracles. He made princes shed their robes, put on working clothes, and go into the fields to get dirt under their nails just like the Untouchables. Soon, to their native states the student potentates took back a firsthand knowledge of contour farming, water conservation, crop rotation. Today the Allahabad Institute is a 600-acre demonstration farm with a student body...
...sense of personal loss, the impulse to render homage were universal. From the St. Lawrence to the Amazon, across Europe and the Middle East, to the Orient and the Antipodes, the leaders had known Franklin Roosevelt at firsthand. In Ottawa William Lyon Mackenzie King expressed Canada's feeling: it is "as if one of our very own had passed away." South Africa's great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves...
Percy Knauth is as American as baseball-he was born within sight of the towers of Manhattan-but this will be something like a homecoming for him. He knows almost every country in Europe firsthand (Finland, the Low Countries and Russia are just about the only places he has never been). He went to school on the Continent-first in Switzerland, then in Germany; and he lived and worked in Germany as a New York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain...