Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shame that a great nation should take a stab at a great world.leader after he is down. There are thousands of people who know China and the Chinese people, who believe the catastrophe could have been avoided as late as 1948, but our "statesmen" could...
...foreign military-aid program. It was the kind of routine, uninspired address that Speechwriter Clark Clifford can turn out in his sleep, designed to satisfy its hearers without making headlines. Back in Washington, the President signed the proclamation of the Atlantic pact, made another short speech: "No nation need fear the results of our cooperation ... On the contrary . . ." These functions he performed with earnest punctilio...
Song. The President's girl guests were 96 members (two from each state) of the American Legion Auxiliary's "Girls Nation." They came trooping into the White House grounds to be presented one by one. Mr. Truman beamed on them in the White House rose garden...
Britain's literate, left-wing New Statesman and Nation, which is apt to make rude noises at all critics of Socialism (particularly if the critics are American), has discovered that in Socialist Britain the good old manners have gone to hell. A New Statesman essayist who sounded just a little like a learned Colonel Blimp charted the decline & fall of civility in Britain...
...nation's art students, from discontented debutantes to determined G.I.s, only a handful will ever make the grade. But the future of U.S. art rests with that handful. Last week the Addison Gallery at Andover, Mass. staged a sneak preview of what some of the more promising students are up to. Gallery Director Bartlett Hayes Jr. had arranged a similar cross-section show last year (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948); this year he invited 25 schools not represented in the first exhibition to submit their prize work. The entries covered the U.S. from Oregon to Alabama, included a smattering...