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...often happens in real life-especially in England-Britain waited decades for the head of a department-store chain, a man who has three telephones near his desk, works for a Tory Prime Minister and rides to work every morning in his limousine, to bring the country nearer to socialism than all the ideologues who preceded...
Longer Reach. Seldom mentioned but not forgotten was that the greatest political bargaining weapon in U.S. and British hands was Russia's need for credits. Areas of conflict between the Western Powers and the U.S.S.R. lie much nearer to the latter's predominant land power. Credits may extend the bargaining reach of the U.S. and Britain at the peace settlement...
...jolting defeat in Grey North's recent by-election (TIME, Feb. 12), the Prime Minister had seen how wartime emotionalism could affect judgments, and he did not want an election until the war was nearer its end, if he could help it. He wanted to fight his next campaign on the issues of Canada's part in world security and reconstruction at home...
Another Konev column plunged nearer to Dresden. Still another surged up the Autobahn toward Berlin's southern gates, in a drive aimed through the Cottbus rail center. Hard fighting raged inside the walled, medieval town of Guben, communications center 65 miles southeast of the Reich's capital. Great clouds of smoke, rising from fires set by British and American airmen, beckoned them...
Part of the menace, some Chileans feared, was nearer home. They muttered darkly about reactionary elements in their own country which might welcome Argentine help in overthrowing their democracy. The iron and coal in southern Chile were a tempting plum to Argentine militarists eager to promote their armament program. And around Valdivia was Chile's incompletely assimilated colony of Germans, not all of whom Chileans trust...