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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final Mission. He had hoped to wind up the job by February and get back to Columbia for the spring semester, but Secretary Acheson urged him to take on one final mission. This week Envoy Jessup boarded ship in San Francisco for a five-week swing through the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Professorr Is Out | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Last week Arleigh Burke, 48, found himself at the center of a fight for which he was poorly equipped. His name had appeared on a list of 22 captains recommended by a Navy selection board for promotion to rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: ARMED FORCES | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Joseph Stalin would be 70 years old this week, and all over the world his faithful followers prepared to celebrate the august birthday. To Moscow journeyed the satraps to pay homage. Russia's state music publishing house issued 45 separate Stalin songs, bearing titles such as To the Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Seventy | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

At Lake Success angry members of the U.N. Trusteeship Council, which was supposed to establish the international regime over Jerusalem, called for a strong stand against Israel's truculence. Ben-Gurion's government meanwhile was carrying on independent negotiations with Jordan's cunning King Abdullah, whose Arab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Till the End of Time? | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

For months, President Perón has been steadily tightening the screw on such opposition as still exists in Argentina. Oppressive new laws have been ground out by a congress systematically weakened by the liquidation of opposition deputies. Over 20 anti-Perón periodicals have been closed up in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Beauty of an Ideal | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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