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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking for a cosmic collision in which man will be wiped out "any minute now," as you report Brown to be with his tipping world, but I would like to get a little of that free publicity from TIME or even the New York Times, for I feel that my theories are fully as spectacular and "flesh-creeping" as Mr. Brown's, and I don't want to wait until you editors go floating out the upper windows of Rockefeller Center in your striped pants...
...Tragic Fact." Sketching the familiar pattern of Communism's march, Dewey cried: "The tragic fact is that too often our own Government . . . seems to have so far lost faith in our system of free opportunity as to encourage this Communist advance, not hinder it ... Communists and fellow travelers [have] risen to positions of trust in our Government ... On that very day when a poor distraught schoolteacher ventured death to jump to freedom . . . the head of our own Government called the exposure of Communists in our Government 'a red herring...
...gravest issue yet referred to U.N.'s uncertain authority. It represented a crisis for U.N. itself: it was the first time that one of the Big Two (on whose supposed unity U.N. was based) had directly accused the other of threatening the peace. Yet, for free men, there was inspiration in U.N.'s General Assembly. In Paris unfolded the story of people with a cause, who had found words of force and dignity to tell...
...bankruptcy was caused not merely by World War II but by a far more profound historic change. Miss Ward calls it the end of the 19th Century. That vanished age was essentially a British age. Britannia's vessels ruled the waves, and Britannia's notions of free trade ruled markets and minds. Britannia's notions of the balance of power kept the world in a rough & ready sort of peace. That order came to an end with the 20th Century's world wars, colonial rebellions, and (above all) the rise of U.S. power. Gone, suddenly, were...
Secretary Royall was emphatic on one point: the Army's action was final. In one more year Use would be free. The Bavarian Ministry of Justice, however, announced that on her release she would be brought into a German court, "if those actions can be proved which have not been dealt with by the U.S. court." Those who still wanted to testify against Use might yet have their chance...