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With the authority of one of the Allies' two greatest fighting leaders, in a fighter's forthright style, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week told Britain to quit stalling on the subject of India's political freedom. The Gissimo was still visiting in India (TIME, Feb. 23), where he had just talked with Mohandas Gandhi, but his words sounded to faraway London like a thunderclap...
...that time, big-league club owners were no longer interested in Hornsby. Insiders said it was because he played the horses-a practice frowned on by Tsar Landis. Said the forthright Rajah: "I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't read much nor go to the movies. I must have some relaxation." Disillusioned and declaring that managers must be "yes-men" to keep a job in the big leagues, the Rajah drifted back to the minors. When immortality came to him last week at 45, he was back where he started-in the Texas...
...have absolutely no objection to such an extension of Greece," said the Polish Ambassador, as he affixed his forthright Jan Ciechanowski...
...Welcome. It was under the shrewd hazel-grey eyes of an able, forthright realist, Brazil's Foreign Minister and the Conference's administrator, Oswaldo Aranha, that the delegates began assembling in Rio. In fine fettle, Aranha snapped orders to painters, rushed completion of a new five-unit air-conditioning system, supervised the refurbishing of crimson satin wall coverings and rich Aubusson rugs in the Itamaraty Palace, Brazil's Foreign Office. He conferred daily with President Vargas, with taut, ascetic U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and with a stream of other diplomats, some of whom left the Palace with...
While the Japs are doing their best to split the loyalty of Filipinos to the U.S., they would also like nothing better than to split the loyalty of the U.S. to the Filipinos. In that, their chances of success were equally small. Said forthright, eloquent Navy Secretary Frank Knox this week: "It is unthinkable and intolerable for the United States to regard the attack on the Filipinos as any other than an attack upon ourselves. . . . Until they are again free, the obligation upon us to re-establish their freedom is one which no honorable nation would fail to fulfill...