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Explained the magazine's World Staff Editor Howard Flieger, who handled the "interview": a special U.S. News courier had taken the questions to Belgrade and got them answered by a Yugoslav official whom he had presumed was empowered to talk for Tito's government. Said Flieger: "There is no doubt in my mind that the story as we printed it is the authentic official attitude." But he refused to name either the talkative official or the courier. Tanjug's denial, Flieger said, should be filed under the "inscrutable Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Completely Imaginary? | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Baker, with nothing to do, took a box from the ledge above the instrument panel. He unwrapped it-more presents from grateful Germans: a little porcelain snail, some flowers, and a toy walrus made out of rat's fur. There was a note addressed: An unseren Blokade Flieger. Hensch could not read it, but he said: "Wait till my wife gets ahold of that. She'll start sending them food packages. She's always sending these Germans presents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Precision Operation | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...last week Hermann Göring stood on the platform of the timbered hall in Berlin's Haus der Flieger (Fliers' Club) and said: "Everywhere in the Reich, armament factories are undisturbed. Here & there an occasional bomb has temporarily caused interruptions but not a single plant, not a single factory of importance, has been destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Air Tactics | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...think, contrary to TIME, Oct. 9, p. 28, that von Ribbentrop and his entourage recognized the Russian Air Force song, Higher and Higher quite well when it was played by the band of his Moscow honor guard. A song entitled Lied der Roten Flieger (Song of the Red Fliers) was launched by the Communists in Germany in the early 30's, with the chorus (last four lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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