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...Soviet policy begins with the simple fact that their home is an island off the continent of Europe. But Britain also speaks for an Empire. There is, therefore, an historic, although not necessarily a dangerous, conflict between the landmass empire of Russia and the globe-girdling, sea-&-air-knit Empire of Britain. In the Middle East the land-empire and the sea-empire meet-and where they meet, there may always be friction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Mold of History | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...dialogue and action drag in most places except for one funny scene in which Grant learus how to knit. Otherwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

...unlawful for the women of the Junta de la Victoria to meet and knit sweaters. The General Confederation of Labor (150,000 members), Argentine equivalent of the A.F. of L., was disbanded. Charge: "Communist infiltration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA,Toward a Total State: Toward a Total State | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...think that I'll tell you about our Smoker . . . you might like some of the stuff we did . . . Paced by "Mrs." TRAMMELL O. (All I do is knit!) SMITH, a slightly swollen matron-about-town, a Navy Wives Club such as no Navy wife has ever seen headlined the skit. . . A bevy of hairy, knobby-kneed "girls" which played bridge, guzzled beer and madly chased anything remotely resembling a husband was composed of men from Section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

...series of technical agencies under the Council to knit Europe into an economic whole. Key transport would be under central control; no more tariffs would be permitted within Europe, although each nation could still determine its own trade policy toward the rest of the world. Europe would have a central bank, investment authority, cartel policy, etc., all aimed at a common (not uniform) economic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Plan for Europe | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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