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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope. The Greek army's rout of these guerrillas, many of them untrained, ill-armed recruits for Communist Markos Vafiades' army, was one of the few positive achievements that could be claimed for the Truman Doctrine after a full year. The battle of Mt. Pieria was neither great nor glorious. It was, however, important: for the first time in a year the Greek government forces, instead of trying to "contain" the guerrillas, had taken the offensive. Just as the U.S. had finally begun to crowd the Communists with political moves like the Trieste trump in Italy and General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Captain of the Crags | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...many Italians moved unhappily beneath the weight of their historic decision, which they neither wanted to make, nor felt adequate to face. On a wall outside Naples one Italian trying to escape the inescapable had scrawled: "Viva questi, viva quelli, viva chi vince, viva noi!" ("Long live these, long live those, long live whoever wins, long live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Viva Questi, Viva Quelli! | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Americans Are Faster. Neither in Jerusalem, nor London, nor Washington nor Lake Success was there any sign last week of solid planning toward a set-up in Palestine that would prevent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tohuvavohu | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...neither Weizmann nor anyone else had a way to bring order out of tohuvavohu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Tohuvavohu | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Mourning Becomes Electra" can hardly claim to be entertainment. It can be compared neither to the Hitchcock thriller that also mixes psychology and murder, nor to the "good" European film, also dramatic--but on purely human, and therefore familiar, terms. "Electra" is all O'Neill--deeply emotional, sonorous, and occasionally pretentious. Much of the picture consists of agitated, often repetitive talk, and even the general excellence of the acting cannot always keep the audience fascinated by the tortured characters who seem to keep themselves busy day and night expiating the guilt of their ancestors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Mourning Becomes Electra' at the Astor | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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