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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious man, therefore I cherish America where I am free to worship as I please . . . and I suspect that 999 out of almost any 1,000 colored Americans you meet will tell you the same thing. But that doesn't mean that we're going to stop fighting race discrimination in this country until we've got it licked . . . We can win our fight without the Communists and we don't want their help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Help Wanted | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...pact carried no commitment to rearm Europe nation by nation, said Dulles firmly. Under its terms, a council and defense committee would make recommendations. "If the recommendations seem to be advantageous, I assume we will accept them. If they appear to be disadvantageous, we are certainly free to reject them ... I think it is worth something to us that there are brave people close to danger who are willing, if need be, to absorb the first shock of devastating attack ... It is not right to treat such people as mendicants." As for an armament race, "that cannot occur under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last Thoughts | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...churches last Sunday Czech priests read a defiant resolution, proclaiming their loyalty to Archbishop Beran and Pius XII. "We are certain," the resolution declared, "that all conscientious and faithful Catholics agree with us and that they would so testify if they were given the opportunity of free speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: The Great Confusion | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Neat clusters of condiments ornament the tables in the quiet, tobacco-free dining room of South Kensington's Onslow Court Hotel. There, in a silence broken only by the tinkle of chinaware, an occasional polite belch or a muffled platitude, retired colonels and well-to-do widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Glass of Blood | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Some economists thought that putting food prices back into free play was a step in the right direction toward correcting Argentina's out-of-balance economy. Labor unions did not think so. They announced that they would seek a new round of wage increases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Going Up | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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