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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...either aborigine or native. To trace the source of Lolo one must study the history of the Indo-Aryan race who moved from Central Asia into Indo-Gangetic plain and then spread abroad. From the famous Indian Epic Mahabharata we know definitely that a large group of people did flee from Hird to the surrounding mountain countries. Further discovery of history is urgently necessary for scholars of atomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice rationing, which soon resulted in a critical shortage, a black market and inflation. That the Russians were making mistakes, too, in the northern sector was evidenced by the thousands of Koreans attempting to flee to the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Rx for Corns | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Tanya was her name. She spoke not a word of English and my store-bought Russian was far too skimpy to convey all that I would have said to her. One beautiful August day, I haltingly invited her to flee with me to the United States. She returned the jest, pleading in mock-seriousness that it was I should flee with...

Author: By Douglass Cater, | Title: Russian, French, Moslem Students Make Congress Colorful Gathering | 10/9/1946 | See Source »

Meanwhile, pitiful remnants of Poland's Jews continued to flee the country by any means and with the utmost speed possible. TIME Correspondent John Scott last week estimated that within a year all the Jews would have left Poland, which once harbored four-fifths of all the Jews in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Hand-Washing | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...husband were as rich and well-fed as the Romanovs: "oriental rugs on the floor, tapestries and paintings, crystal chandeliers." Julia herself deplored the contrast. "You may not believe me," she said, "but I am opposed to all this gluttony of the leaders." Kravchenko begged her to reform, to flee with, him and live for her "ideals." "Don't be cruel, Vitya," she cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to All That | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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