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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dodging the rap, quailed: "I have never begged for mercy in my life. ... I don't do it now. But I do ask for justice." But he wasn't beaten yet-until he has taken a Supreme Court appeal, he will remain on hand to help govern his town & country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Justice | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Would the Generalissimo be a candidate for President under the new constitution? "I have not thought of that as yet. When the power to govern is restored to the people, I will have completed my responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Stature | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...64th Article of The Articles of War which "shall at all times and in all places govern the Armies of the United States" forbids willful disobedience to a lawful command of a superior officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...obscurity and the absence of stormy petrels were assets, the new Kanellopoulos I Cabinet was a masterpiece. The Premier himself had done a year's stint as Vice Premier in the wartime government in exile, but most of his Ministers were just names to the Greek in the street. Possibly this was just as well: the new Cabinet's job is to govern Greece only until the national elections, still tentatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Unknowns | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...grim and resolute Liberal members of the House of Commons strode belligerently into a big office on the second floor of Ottawa's East Block. There, before a full-dress meeting of the Cabinet, they shook an angry finger at the men who govern Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Liberal Rebellion | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

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