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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the Old City has few hotels to shelter visitors. It lacks adequate water or electricity. Three miles to the south in Bethlehem, Christmastide promises to be sad and bitter. The village where Christ was born is jammed with Arab refugees; 55,000 hungry, homeless, hopeless outcasts of war live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Troubled Shrine | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

China's fugitive Nationalist government tarried at Chengtu just ten days. The night before it fled once more from the oncoming Reds, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called a cabinet session. Decisions: 1) resistance to the Communists on the mainland would go underground; 2) headquarters for some 600,000 Nationalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Last Stand | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

For the stubborn, aging (63) leader, the flight across the sampan-flecked Strait of Formosa was a time for bitter remembrance. For China, and the world, it was the end of an era. A quarter of a century ago, with Sun Yat-sen's mantle on his shoulders, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Last Stand | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The directive, sent to McCloy by the State Department last month, did no more than to codify and sharpen U.S. policy as stated in the Occupation Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Directive | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The Sheep of Melissa. The great hunger for land has been gnawing at Italy's vitals for years; it has nowhere been more fierce than in Melissa, a grey, forlorn village in malaria-ridden Calabria, where the wave of land seizures began, in bloodshed, more than a month ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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