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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zionists argued desperately for their 50-year-old dream of an independent Jewish state. They had the U.S. Government in an awkward corner. Not only had the U.S. put its signature to partition; without U.S. sponsorship the plan would never have passed. They put forth practical as well as moral arguments: the Arabs needed U.S. dollars as much as the U.S. needed Arabian oil. No matter how they raged, the Arabs would not kill such a golden-egg-laying goose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bad Medicine | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...opera-or by the time it is done with you -you have decided that Peter Grimes is the whole of bombing, machine-gunning, mining, torpedoing, ambushing humanity which talks about a guaranteed standard of living, yet does nothing but wreck its own works, degrade or pervert its own moral life and reduce itself to starvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The question: Are We Losing Our Moral Standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Last week, well pleased with Mrs. Pixley's program, the Los Angeles school board gave her the high-sounding title of "Supervisor of Moral and Spiritual Values for the School System of the City of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pixleyism | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

With the third book, The Realist, laid in 1918, the moral breakdown is complete. Huguenau, the central character, is a deserter. Clever, self-confident, cocky, a smooth salesman, he finds himself in a town where the aging Major von Pasenow (the hero of The Romantic) is the town commandant and where Esch, spiritualized and suffering, and with vague Messianic visions, is the editor of a failing radical paper. Huguenau becomes friendly with Esch in order to denounce him to the commandant, organizes a company to buy the paper, and is unmasked as a deserter just as the revolution begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pre-Hitler Germany | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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