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...Historian-Journalist Herbert Agar (former president of New York's Freedom House) got the loudest applause. Said he: "When we have beaten back the tyrannies . . . there will be many temptations to suspend our allegiance to Areopagitica at least so far as the enemy is concerned.... Let us forbid them the use of arms. Let us make such disposal of their persons and property as we and our Allies think appropriate. But let us not try to tell them what they may read or even what they may print. ... It will be irksome if the Germans rush into print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Immortal Garland | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...loudest drums ever beaten on the once taboo topic of venereal disease were pummeled last week by the War Advertising Council. Launching a new poster campaign with the slogan HIDDEN ENEMY-V.D., the Council appealed to U.S. advertisers to unite in a nationwide drive against syphilis and gonorrhea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Unions v. Syphilis | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...anti-Fascist Italians were being done a gross injustice. They declared (with some reason) that the terms had been drafted at Casablanca, when no one foresaw Italy's quick collapse. They wanted Italy to have the full status of a willing cobelligerent and an ally against the Germans. Loudest of the outcries came from the Socialist Avanti's Editor Pietro Nenni. Wrote he: "We in Italy are finding how superficial, summary and empirical are Allied ideas of Europe's problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: What Now? | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Mackinaws and Black Beans. To help him, Gardner has hired 150 of the toughest woodsmen he could find. Most of them come from New Brunswick-hard-muscled, catfooted lumberjacks who like to wear the loudest mackinaw shirts that money can buy. They work in crews of six, travel in bateaux (oversized row-boats), sometimes wade chest-deep in icy water. They will seldom be dry until the logs reach Keegan late in June. They eat prodigiously and often (breakfast at dawn, first lunch at 10 a.m., second at 2 p.m., supper in the early evening). The river staples are meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: Big Drive | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Last week, as usual, U.S. policy in Latin America was up against an obstacle: Argentina, which refused to be a Good Neighbor. Foremost, though not the loudest leader of this recalcitrance was Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, at present serving slightly behind the scenes as Acting Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Sobered Perón | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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