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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking as a soldier, Montgomery warned: "To promise to rescue the West in due course after a successful invasion from the East is quite useless. If the West is overrun again, that is ... the end of Western civilization . . . Do not let us fail to do the right things now!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: None Can Stand Alone | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

If it had been given time to do a gradual job, there was not much doubt that the Navy could have melted away $353 million in fat without nicking the muscle. But by demanding the cutback immediately, Johnson had forced the Navy to chop away at the only big target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORCES: Fat or Muscle? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Ancient Tradition. Actually Washington's ghostly authors were only bringing mass-production methods to an even more ancient if questionable tradition. Scholars hold that Nero's speeches were written by his tutor, Seneca. Aulus Hirtius is credited with turning out part of Julius Caesar's Commentaries. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Trouble with Ghosts | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

One piece of testimony, produced at a congressional hearing but barred from the first trial by Judge Samuel Kaufman, was admitted to the second trial by Judge Henry Goddard. Hiss, who had a Ford roadster, had bought a new Plymouth. Said Chambers: "He wanted to get rid of the Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE: The Opened | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

"No" & "Yes." By this time, the commuter-residents of Greenwich (pop. 40,400) were in a genteel uproar. The Greenwich Community Concert Association summoned Adler and Draper before it, asked them if they believed in overthrowing the government by force. "No," they said. Did they believe in making changes by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Concert In Greenwich | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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