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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pedestrians peered and crowded, babbling curiously. A Capitol cop who was walking his beat on the West Front took one look at the shouting guardsmen and prepared for countermeasures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITOL: The Big Dream | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Communists had hardly settled in their cells when they acquired neighbors who also look to Moscow. Five officials of the Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet Russia's commercial arm in the U.S., were installed temporarily in the federal jail until they raised $15,000 bail apiece. Amtorg, which calls itself a private corporation, was indicted for failure to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The Russians (and a sixth who is in Russia) were indicted for their part in the firm's refusal to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Penalty | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...checks. I said I'd telephone collect and the American Express could put them straight, but they said no. They loaned me 100 rubles and offered to give me a guide, but I said, 'No thanks, I don't need one. I'd rather just look around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: VIP | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...foreign policy of the U. S. is against Russia and sin, in favor of prosperity and happiness. These goals have recently begun to seem somewhat inadequate to direct specific operations. The U. S., in other words, is in need of sharper definition of its foreign policy. It cannot look to Washington; Harry Truman is a public opinion President, seeking to follow, not to lead, the people. Who, then, makes public opinion? One of the most revered (even though not the most widely read) of those who try to mold opinion is Walter Lippmann. For some time he has been unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: AS LIPPMANN SEES IT | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Every day during the trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty (TIME, Feb. 14 et seq.), a dapper, trimly uniformed officer, with a slightly dreamy look in his eyes and spotless white gloves on his hands, sat at the defendant's right. Every day as the session opened, the officer stopped before the judges' bench and formally reported that the accused was present in the court. Last week, Lieutenant of Prison Guards Imre Szipzr, 32, warden of the Marko Street House of Detention in Budapest, was himself in the prisoner's dock before a Budapest criminal court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: The Merry Warden | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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