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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Phase III had arrived was in itself a partial victory for the West. But was it prepared for the mobile political action that would now be required? There were signs that Washington, London and Paris were still unable to think two moves ahead. The Danube conference was a good sample of how the West could lose the third round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Gong for the Third Round | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...home, a Briton's holiday is sacred and for the most part steeped in gloom. Last week as Britain's August Bank Holiday came to an end under sodden skies, tens of thousands of vacationing Britons trooped back to grimy workaday lives at Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London with little to look back on but dreary days in shabby, seaside boarding houses. There were some Britons, however, whose vacation memories would glow brighter through the long winter months ahead. Among these were the 21,000 returning from Butlin's five "Luxury Holiday Camps" in England, Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Having Wonderful Time | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Last week the official London Gazette announced that Dr. Watts had been awarded the George Medal for "courage and devotion to duty of the highest order." Admonishing reporters not to "make a song and dance about it," Watts reluctantly gave a few pointers on method: "I started knowing that such a small object, to be explosive, had to have an acid-operated fuse or an electric current. Gentle prodding told me which. These letter bombs were all of the electric-fuse type. All I had to do was to find the wires between battery and fuse, snip them and breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentle Prodding | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...approach the question, the Archbishop of Canterbury 32 months ago appointed a 13-member commission, headed by the Rt. Rev. John W. C. Wand, Lord Bishop of London, and including two lawyers and six doctors. Last week their conclusions were in: artificial insemination was permissible when the husband was the donor, but not otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Breach of Marriage | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...survive as long as they did. However, all such questions are swamped in slick-fiction formula. A fiery redhead (Susan Hayward) gets crippled for no good reason and for no good reason gets fixed up again. Her fiance, the swine mentioned above, runs off with her sister (Julie London). An intrepid editor and duelist (Van Heflin) waits Redhead out and finally gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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