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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police last week were called out to squelch a one-hour riot which broke out among a crowd of 1,000 on the campus of Rome University. Ten people were injured. The original occasion of the gathering: a "forgive & forget ceremony"^ between former fascists and antifascists, which was part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Auld Lang Syne | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

From the Gold Coast came big names in wealth and society. They hurried into the church, holding their furs around their ears. Large-boned, narrow-eyed Slavs in Sunday-best waded through the slush from smoke-stained frame houses and brick tenements near the stockyards. Priests, bishops and archbishops occupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Abbot from the Yards | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Koestler's only hope, more a counsel of despair than a hope, is for a West European federation-including France, the Low Countries, a de-Francoed Spain, Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Battle for France | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Rio's Communists blew their horns and the notes were echoed from the provinces. The Party had accomplishments to report and it seized an occasion-the 48th birthday of its magnetic leader, Luis Carlos Prestes-to tell the world. Throughout Brazil, at dozens of picnics and other celebrations, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Red Harvest | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

For a year U.S. officers in Berlin had been waiting for an occasion to introduce an Allied musician to the Germans, to prove how cultured the conquerors were.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lawrence in Berlin | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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