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Died. Thomas Henry Wintringham, 51, tough, battle-scarred veteran of the Spanish Civil War International Brigade (he commanded the British battalion) and military author (Armies of Freemen, 1940; People's War, 1942); of a heart ailment; in Barnetly, England. A natural soldier, Guerrillista Wintringham (who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1936 for disobedience) compressed his fighting experience into a slim 25? handbook, New Ways of War ("a homeowner's guide to killing people without getting killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...driving rain, at Britain's seacoast town of Deal, the Mayor and a handful of raincoated freemen gathered to pay solemn tribute to a conqueror. The occasion : the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Julius Caesar on the 2,000th anniversary of his invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Jus, Imperium, Pax | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...agree with Abe Lincoln, whom you quote in this article, that "among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. . . ." But desperate circumstance sometimes requires desperate remedy. All that the G.I.s of Athens, Tenn. wanted was a fair count of their votes. And, more power to them, that is what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...Among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and. . . they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Battle of the Ballots | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Stamford's historic Atlantic Square, amid modern store fronts and movie marquees, a granite slab marks the ground where, 305 years ago, "Twentynine men and their families . . . imbued with the spirit of the founders of New England . . . made a permanent and enduring settlement of landowners and freemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old & New | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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