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Helping the eastern European countries achieve at lest a measure of freedom from Russia will weaken the Russian influence on communist groups outside the Soviet sphere. De-Russianizing Western European communists, in particular, will greatly reduce their threat to our hegemony of Western Europe...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...unimaginative U.S. customers. The drum service is usually person-to-person, and each member of the tribe has his drumbeat code name, e.g.: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing," or, "Don't go where the lucky fellows are taking women along lest you get into trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Unpregnant Drums | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...truth-loving, morality-conscious Great Emancipator expressed a materially different sentiment: "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." Again Honest Abe said on May 19, 1856: "But we must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Republicans asked, Colorado's Eugene Millikin insisted, was to restrain those who thought the U.S. should be "the world's shmoo and who are always shaking themselves to pieces lest other countries have a bad opinion of us." The peril-point provision would simply allow Congress "to judge the extent to which our domestic producers have become the pawn of diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Peril Passed | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...they watched graceful Siamese dance exhibitions or sipped drinks under the fake banana trees of the Silver Palm Club. The more adventurous let fleet-tongued, fleet-footed samlor (pedicab) boys wheel them off to the Cathay Night Club, where they jitterbugged the night away with wriggly Siamese taxi dancers. (Lest the visitors get any improper ideas, signs at their hotels informed them sternly: "It is forbidden to entertain lady guests in the bedroom without permission of the management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: The Land of Ihe Cheerful People | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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