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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flew homeward this week, Americans were still far from sure what the truth was that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stood for; but they sensed in him, if not rare truth, a rare heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Visit to a Mountaintop | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...last they tottered into Ladakh's capital. The Indian army made them comfortable for the night and sent out yaks for their abandoned baggage. Last week a U.S. embassy plane flew the travelers into Delhi. They had covered some 2,500 miles in ten weeks. John Hall Paxton was ready for his vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Over the Hump | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Macao, perhaps 200 intellectuals, mostly doctors, lawyers and teachers. "We have them spotted," said a Portuguese police official. "They loathe to mix with the lower classes, so we don't have to worry too much about them." On China's "Double Tenth" only six Communist flags flew in Macao, despite the fact that the colony has one factory openly manufacturing the flags for export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACAO: A Time for Circumspection | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...July 8th he was in Palestine. He went directly into action. Chief air opposition came from the Egyjtians flying Italian fighters and British Spitfires, and the single Arab group with a respectable air force. The Israelis flew planes bought through an agreement with the Czech government, procuring Messerschmits which were manufactured at a Scoda plant outside of Prague and flown in bigger planes to Palestine. The Israell also operated several Piper cubs, and increased their air power even further when a group of Beaufighters which were to provide the melodrama in an English movie disappeared from their British field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior, Ex-Pilot Tells of Israel War | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...accept the proposition that "the Marshall Plan is a success." The proposition was true, up to a point. Yet Americans were also learning that, in the battle for the West's survival, every success leads only to the anteroom of another crisis. Last week ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman flew to Paris, and into a new anteroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: In the Anteroom | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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