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Dates: during 1940-1949
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False Philosophy. His face was grim and set. He spoke in a week of historic victories for Communism in Asia (see FOREIGN NEWS). He had chosen his Inauguration Day to give the U.S.-and the world-a major restatement of U.S. foreign policy. Reading with careful emphasis from his brown leather loose-leaf notebook, his breath hanging frosty in the winter air, the President made it clear that there would be no softening of the U.S. attitude toward Communist aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bold New Program | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...major programs, such as the North Atlantic alliance and additional Marshall Plan funds, for which Vandenberg had led the fight, he could again be expected to help out. But Harry Truman could not expect Vandenberg to support any "impromptu and unpredictable" foreign policy the President might embark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Secondary Responsibility | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...feels that the major reason for U.S. failure in China is that, in following an anti-Communist policy, we have blindly overlooked some local factors. "We need to develop a local approach to each area, in order to ally ourselves with the forces of progressive social change, rather than against them," he claimed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'US Should Cut Dutch ERP' To Help Set Indonesia Free | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

...England. In the movie, some of the sharp edges have been knocked off the dialogue by the censors, and, in the hands of Clark Gable, General Dennis has become a less forceful figure. The picture gets its chief vitality from Walter Pidgeon's vivid playing of cynical old Major General Kane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 24, 1949 | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Readers who find false beards passe may as well pass up The Dukays, even though the publishers are boosting it as their "major book for the spring of 1949," and Author Lajos Zilahy as "Hungary's foremost novelist." The Dukays was a Hungarian bestseller in 1947; probably nothing but a popular revolt against tinsel fiction can stop it from being equally successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girls in Goulash | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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