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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British battleship Anson, the British carriers Implacable, Victorious and Theseus, the French carrier Arromanches, three British and five French cruisers, and 21 destroyers and destroyer escorts-headed in convoy for the Bay of Biscay. Submarines launched dummy torpedoes, French and British carriers exchanged air strikes, bombers roared overhead. Meanwhile, smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN UNION: Exercise Verity | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Our initial appearance on the Pacific Coast was in 1935, when we established an editorial office in San Francisco. One year later the Los Angeles bureau was opened and, in the course of covering the news, we got started on the job of reporting the huge industrial development that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

What Mao did was to explode the hope that the Western democracies could do business with Communist China and thus gradually wean its Red masters away from allegiance to world communism. Mao announced, in effect, that Titoism was not for him. Said he: "We belong to the anti-imperialist front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Mao Settles the Dust | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has lent $125,100,000 to Latin American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), took another step last week to help carry out President Truman's Point Four development program in South America. The bank announced that a team of nine experts, headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Reconnaissance in Force | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

No Apologies. Like the U.S. Commission on Freedom of the Press (TIME, March 31, 1947), the 17-member Royal Commission was mainly composed of nonjournalists; it was headed by Sir David Ross, provost (now emeritus) of Oxford's Oriel College and a distinguished Aristotelian scholar. As Britain's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vindication | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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