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...roly-poly George Edward Allen return to Washington after five weeks in the hospital and in Atlantic City. Harry Truman was mighty glad; there was no one he would rather have around than George. Congress was gone and there would be a lull, but he needed all the help, advice and laughs he could get. So it was good to have George back with the rest of the "gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Regular Guys | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Lieut. Cowin fell, fatally wounded. Under Major Fred. J. Freese, a U.S. Army Special Service officer, the marines dug in for an all-day fight. But, after four hours, they had run out of mortar shells. Major Freese seized on a lull, ordered his men to make a break. In Peiping that night the weary detachment completed its mission. Its casualties: three killed, twelve wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle at Anping | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...last week's lull from strikes, many an American hoped that now was the time when smart unionists would do some soul-searching and long-range planning for peace. Their hopes were vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: No Peace | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

This double dose of soothing syrup is intended to lull certain suspicions which France has about its Communist Party. A Frenchman who considers joining it or following it asks himself whether it is a French party, an international party or a Russian party. Charles de Gaulle engraved this doubt on French minds when he gave it as a reason for refusing to give the Communists the ministries of Foreign Affairs, War or Interior (police). The French remember, too, the Communist record between the 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact and the German attack on Russia. Thorez himself symbolized that record by deserting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Challenger | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...word report, released after three weeks of rigidly secret investigation, it: 1) bluntly accused three Canadians and one British subject of giving Government secrets to Russia; 2) unfolded the details of Russian espionage in Canada. In an Allied world already jittery over Russia, the report was not calculated to lull suspicions and fears. Said the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Instructions from Moscow | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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