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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ana has replaced them all. The power of the aristocrats, the industrialists, the royal playboys and the royal concubines has passed into her hands. She runs Rumania. Her title is Foreign Minister, but her job is that of Stalin's proconsul. Of the seven telephones on her office desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

And where was that? That was where the last Foreign Ministers' Conference broke up eight months ago in London, angry and in almost complete disagreement between Russia and the West. To return to that ill-fated council table might be a proper and necessary step, but it would not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Gentlemen, I Have a Plan | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

"The Bryn Mawr alumna would buy tickets for a lecture on economics by the late John Maynard Keynes and would go in much the same spirit as Juliana went to hear Churchill. Just as the Bryn Mawr alumna would bring her husband, so Juliana brought Bernhard. He sat there looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Woman Who Wanted a Smile | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

The Touch of Greatness. Juliana on one occasion achieved a touch of greatness. In 1940, fleeing the Nazis, she went to Canada while her mother and husband remained in Britain. For the first time in her life she was on her own. She went to a microphone and spoke to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Woman Who Wanted a Smile | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Brazil last week won a heat in its race with Argentina for a share in the cattle, oil and forest riches of landlocked Bolivia. With a 30-man entourage, Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra flew to the Bolivian town of San José de Chiquitos for a meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: The Open Road | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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