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...force, wherever the U.S. could best apply it. The U.S. would have to underwrite Europe's economic recovery with military force. The area which the U.S. policymakers had chosen for the main effort, the most probable route of the enemy's advance, was the rich industrial heartland of Western Europe. That was why the U.S. was prepared to back Western Union...
From the Brazilian heartland last summer came stories of a "miracle man" whose blessing cured the sick in mind and body. The healer was a humble parish priest named Padre Antonio Ribeiro Pinto. By last week he had become a national figure. To seek his blessing, thousands of Brazilians were traveling by special train, by chartered taxi and by bus and truck from as far south as Porto Alegre and as far north as Bahía. Reported TIME Correspondent William White, who went to see for himself...
...other crises was the crisis of the U.S. policy of containing Communism. Last week, Pundit Walter Lippmann asked the disturbing question whether such a policy was feasible at all (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). For at the bottom of almost every phase of crisis was the Soviet Union. From the heartland of Eurasia she irradiated the world along a vast circumference with waves of disruptive power...
During World War II it had been popular to say with the geopoliticians that whoever controlled the Eurasian heartland would dominate the rimlands and the rest of the world. The geopolitical fad had passed, but the fact remained-augmented, by Russia's successes in the war and at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, to ominous power...
Parker's company is based in Janesville, Wis., a thriving small town (pop. 22,992) in the Chicago Tribune's isolationist heartland. Last week, Parker decided that it was about time his 2,300 employees and the other citizens of Janesville learned how important foreign trade is to them. In an ad in the Janesville Gazette, Parker announced that 40% of the Sept. 19 weekly payroll (total: $125,000) would be paid in Mexican pesos. Although Mexico represents only one-fourteenth of the company's foreign business, he chose pesos because they were easily obtained and stable...