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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Formosa, the Nationalists at last held a good defensive position. Chiang had an estimated 300,000 troops on the island, small air and naval forces to garrison and guard it, and the Communists lacked an air force and navy to help them hurdle the moat that surrounds the island...

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

Last week, in shirtsleeves and summer dresses, some 5,000,000 Australians went to the polls (voting is compulsory; slackers can be fined up to $5). They gave the combined Liberal and Country parties a clear majority of at least 27 seats (by incomplete count) in the new House of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Golden Age Express | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Menzies promised to stop bureaucratic highhandedness, also promised to outlaw the weak Australian Communist Party. The Dominion social welfare program (old-age pensions since 1909, maternity benefits since 1912) was not a campaign issue. Menzies will retain it in full.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Golden Age Express | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

His doctors said Grotewohl would have to stay in the hospital at least four weeks. That should certainly be enough to cure a case of grippe, but it was probably not enough to cure a nervous breakdown or a severe case of political jitters. Whatever else was the matter with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tough on the Nerves | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

¶ The people of Red-encircled West Berlin should be helped out of their present economic plight, brought into the closest possible relations with West Germany. ¶The West Germans must not be allowed to wiggle out of Allied security safeguards, e.g., they will not be allowed to have even...

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

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