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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stab in the back' attack on France in June, 1940. Now the Vatican preaches 'impartial love for all nations' but the fact remains that in this great historic battle of freedom-loving people against the enemy of mankind, the Vatican occupied the position of an outright accomplice of Fascism. . . . Franco is a Vatican pet and Franco's Spain is the image of the clerical states of postwar Europe which the Vatican would like to see emerge. . . . Like the Italians, the Catholics of England, America, Spain, Poland and other countries are becoming convinced of the pro-Fascist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Devious Diplomacy | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...bolster the authority of pro-Axis Premier Ion Antonescu, fresh batches of Gestapo agents arrived in Bucharest. Temporarily as in neighboring Bulgaria (TiME, Jan. 10), the Nazi hold might be strong enough to prevent outright defection. But neither the Nazis nor the orders of the quisling Premier could halt Rumania's rising panic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Passage to Peace | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...Death? For Torture? Herbert Claiborne Pell, U.S. delegate on the Commission, says frankly that he is in favor of being tough. Gallup polices in Britain recently voted: 40% to shoot Axis big shots outright; 18% for trial; 15% for torture; 11% for imprisonment or exile; the rest for miscellaneous solutions, including one Briton in a hundred who would just let them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Enter the Lawyers | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...cotton mills to produce one tenth of their export cloth in popular styles, had the goods sold at "yardstick" prices through portable street stores. They were mobbed by pushing housewives, and soon cloth prices in regular stores went down. In some cases of speculation or hoarding, he turned to outright requisition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Jo | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...song did not even find a publisher. Black shelved it and went to work on another, the durable Dardanella, which became the rage of 1919 and has been under continuous revival ever since. But, according to Tin Pan Alley's best-informed chroniclers, luckless Johnny Black sold Dardanella outright for $25, and, when he got around to suing Publisher Fred Fisher, who made a million out of it, netted only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Johnny's Doll | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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