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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dichotomy and say it is a success or a failure?" Big Four parleys, he explained in his precise way, are no longer enough in themselves to achieve striking changes or to create new crises. Like steam gauges which indicate how much pressure has been built up, Acheson said, the Foreign Ministers' meetings show what the gains or losses in each side's position have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Other Side of the World | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...billion for foreign aid (the bulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: BIG GOVERNMENT | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...romance ever traveled a rockier road. Among the bumps: Joe's impulsive enlistment in the Foreign Legion (it took President Roosevelt's appearance in the strip to get him out), his six years as a private in the U.S. Army (which made Palooka the hero of numerous recruiting posters), Ann's airplane crash in Wyoming (40,000 fans flooded Fisher with anxious inquiries) and her subsequent amnesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. & Mrs. Palooka | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...page, Henry A. Burgevine, had more martial spirit than was good for him. In China in the days of the great Taiping rebellion, Adventurer Burgevine entered the Emperor's service. In 1860 he became commander of the foreign mercenaries, but he was ousted and fled to the rebels, who gave him a high command. Captured later by government forces, he was drowned before he could be brought to trial. Some said his boat capsized; some said he was plumped into a burlap bag and dumped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High School on the Hill | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

Hollywood, wanderlusting after fresh backgrounds and a chance to use up blocked foreign funds, keeps packing star off to location all around the globe (TIME June 6). Its No. 1 production colony England, which offers plenty of technical resources and no language bar. This week a leading British film critic voiced some frank qualms over the Yankee invasion

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darned Near Dead | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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