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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FOR AMERICANS: "Nothing could well be more disastrous than that America should take sides ... in the British general election." FOR BRITONS: "The British public should try to be less touchy about what is said in America. The real test is what is done, and by that test the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Both Sides of the Medal | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

Guards with Tommy guns peered down from the roof of Sofia's grandiose Hôtel Bulgarie, and armored cars toured the streets below. In the hotel's plush lobbies and corridors, swarthy Albanian colonels conferred importantly with bemedaled Czech generals; Polish officials huddled with thoughtful Hungarians. Vulko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Thunder Out of Russia | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

For the Christian World. "A start must be made," said Adenauer when he presided last year over West Germany's constitutional assembly, "so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world." As Chancellor, at 73, he will guide a nation neither whole nor as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man from the Wine Country | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

The Old Reliable. Ever since his Christian Democratic Union had come out ahead in the West German elections (TIME, Aug. 22), Adenauer's work load had increased staggeringly. Letters have poured in-from oldtime civil servants seeking jobs, from contractors eager to get in on Bonn's construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man from the Wine Country | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

The Grammos offensive was part of the government drive, launched at Vitsi three weeks ago, to wipe out the guerrillas this fall. The Communists had fought back hard. Even after being bombed and shelled, many stuck to their pinelog pillboxes, engaged the advancing government troops hand-to-hand. At nightfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Kai Pali Grammes | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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