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...side of those with whom she fought against the Nazi oppressor, and in particular the United States, England, the Soviet Union, France hopes to build a new world, based on democracy and collective security. It is a union of free peoples which permitted victory, and this union sealed in a common sacrifice can guarantee peace. The United Nations organization appears to us the most efficient instrument against the threat of aggression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Challenger | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Sirs: By this stage of the game it should be apparent to any American, with either foresight or memory, that there can be no hope of a free, peaceful world without a strong, independent, democratic Germany. The Allies would find the role of oppressor as difficult as did the Nazis. . . . As long as men are dominated there will be Hitlers to take advantage of depression and chaos. The only reparations that we could extract from a defeated, devastated Germany are the dividends of a peaceful producing nation's commerce and trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1944 | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Chinese Pattern | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Final Warning No. -. The Allies had not yet given the word to the conquered to rise up and smite their oppressor: that word probably would not come until Allied troops crossed the Channel. But Russia, ready to start a new drive which presumably will be geared with the invasion, joined the U.S. and Britain in one more stern warning to Germany's collaborators. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland were told to pull out immediately, or share in the full disaster of Axis defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: First Blow | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...mimeopaper, La Parola del Soldato (The Soldier's Word), is circulated among Italian occupation troops in France in collaboration with the French underground. Its aim: "union of action of all Italians ... for an immediate separate peace and for the restitution ... of freedom and independence against the Hitlero-Mussolinian oppressor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The New Generation | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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