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This suspicion is all the more lively when their suggestions are interlarded with glaring mis-representation, name-calling, outrageous distortion, and time-worn psychological tricks of an Axis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/11/1941 | See Source »

...Italy just 13 days, left to return to the U.S. What the Pope told Mr. Taylor in reply to the President's message on war-&-peace aims still remained a secret (TIME, Sept. 22), but Mr. Taylor dropped one strong hint that he considered this his last mis sion to the Vatican (reason: war?). Before leaving, he gave his $500,000 villa in Florence to the Pope, Vatican circles laconically reported that Mr. Taylor carried back to the President an auto graphed photograph of the Pope, together with His Holiness' assurance that he would continue to pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VATICAN: Pope to President | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Author. Chief difficulty in writing about Christian goodness is that almost nobody believes it is possible. Next difficulty is that few people find it exciting. In Les Misérables Victor Hugo succeeded in making goodness exciting by free flourishes of his supercolossal, Wagnerian style. His Bishop Myriel is Christian virtue carried to the point of elephantiasis. Author Cronin succeeds by exactly the opposite means-by simplicity, artful artlessness, complete sincerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodness Made Readable | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...review of General Sir Archibald Wavell's Allenby: A Study in Greatness, which we published last Thursday. . . . We were somewhat disturbed, however, to see that the book is attributed to Lippincott, and we wonder whether you couldn't find space in your next issue to correct this mis-attribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...baths and roaches, and is proud of its hideous castellated palace. There are grubby plots of decaying vegetation and gardens with flowering fences of euphorbia and brilliantly colored birds. Its tedj houses, half saloon, half brothel, are marked over the doorway with a traditional red cross - which caused some mis understanding when a Red Cross medical unit made its first appearance in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Key Towns | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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