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...Caldwell in his letter in TIME of April 24 is a bit hysterical and conclusion-jumpish about racial discrimination on a trip of which he admittedly saw only the tail-most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Politically the British Government was jumpish. The pacific Laborite Government in 1930 postponed for five years the completion of the great Singapore Naval Base as a "necessary economy" (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). But last week, despite financial troubles, a new decision was taken to complete the base-presumably as a threat to make Japan behave. To this $45,000,000 enterprise, Australia, despite her equally great financial troubles, is glad to contribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Brains | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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