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Western Europe might lie almost defenseless under the shadow of Red guns, but some members of European society, at least, were carrying on bravely. Egypt's King Farouk, for one, moved serenely northward through France's peaceful summer landscape. Traveling incognito as Fuad Pasha Masri (Fuad-the-Egyptian) in a glittering train of seven Cadillacs with motorcycle outriders, while his private plane hopped along beside him from one airfield to the next, he startled hotel managers by arriving unannounced in the middle of the night and demanding 22 rooms for himself and staff. (At Lyons he complained that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Become Extinct | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...There were two good reasons why he refrained from a headlong effort to reinforce his hard-pressed men: 1) even at the maximum rate of build-up which U.S. forces in the Far East might now attain, they had little or no present chance of launching a drive northward against the Communists; 2) with the Communists still menacing other points in the Far East (e.g., Formosa, Indo-China), it would be the height of recklessness to be sucked out of position by committing all the U.S. strength in the area to the Korean battle. On the other hand, MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Focus of Hope | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...entered a town, suddenly a shout went up from Korean soldiers on tops of jeeps and from dirty, wearied refugees. Wildly cheering people ran into the dusty roads and pointed at the sky. All traffic stopped. Never had I seen such a heartfelt manifestation of joy. Above us, flying northward in neat formation, were six American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Help Seemed Far Away . | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...flatlands of Kansas, deep-tanned men, with wheat dust pasted to their faces, pushed the clattering combines northward in the annual harvest of winter wheat. The Shorthorns and Herefords lumbered lazily across the Great Plains; 13 million new beef calves bellowed at the smoky bite of the branding iron. Down South, in the weeks before the cotton bloomed white, stretching like a giant snowdrift from North Carolina through Texas, there were watermelons and peaches to be picked, small grain crops to be brought in, tobacco to be topped and suckered, beef and dairy cattle to be tended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...know when we have had guests of whom we have thought so much," said Harry Truman, who made no attempt to keep pace with his guest after dark. At week's end, when González' train rolled northward, other Washington bigwigs were red-eyed and exhausted. Chilean Ambassador Félix Nieto del Rio saw his chief off on the 4 p.m. train, then went straight home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Will & Good Fun | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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