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...official junket set an imposing Soviet seal on the Groza Government, just before the Council of Foreign Ministers was due to weigh its records in London (see INTERNATIONAL). But Rumania, like Bulgaria (see below), needed the imprimatur of the U.S. and Britain before it could get the peace treaty it sought. Not one but all of the Big Three were now acting tough. If Premier Groza had found light in the east, King Michael might also find it in the west...
Regent In? On the pressing problem of a regency for Greece (TIME, Dec. 25) Mr. Eden was equally conciliatory. "We are not against a regency. . . . The first suggestion for a regency was made by our ambassador in Athens. . . ." With Britain's imprimatur, a regency seemed the quickest way to end the fighting...
...permitted by the Catholic Church are based upon what Pope Pius XI referred to (in his Encyclical on Christian Marriage, December 31, 1931) as the circumstances of time, known as the Safe Period method; and to explain how this works, dignitaries of the Church have written, or put their imprimatur upon pamphlets and books that are freely distributed through the mails to millions of people." Despite Catholic opposition to medical contraception, a public opinion survey made in 1940 indicated that 72 per cent of the Catholics in Massachusetts favored medical freedom in birth control. In an extensive survey made...
...anyone but the most ardent Jew-baiter, Lord Haw-Haw's Twilight Over England is interesting only for its preface. There William Joyce (whose name has been Germanized to Fröhlich) puts his imprimatur on the fact that his father was an Irishman, his mother a Briton, himself a New Yorker. Born in 1906, educated by Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923, joined up with comic-strip Dictator Mosley ten years later. Twice arrested for assaulting fellow citizens in political brawls, Joyce took it on the lam for Berlin just before war was declared...
...each for eight Republic pictures a year, got $25,000 from Twentieth Century-Fox for Shooting High with Jane Withers, makes $10,000 to $12,000 a year on phonograph records that sometimes outsell Bing Crosby's. Another $25,000 a year comes from his magic imprimatur on cap pistols, sweat shirts, cowboy suits, a bandit-hunt game, toothbrushes, bandannas, books, balloons, dolls, a new, syndicated comic strip, make-up kits...