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Eaton, in attacking U.S. friends of Moscow, goes overboard in criticism of those Americans who remember with gratitude Russia's wartime sacrifices. "The war is over," says Eaton, "we owe nothing to Russia today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: How to Help Moscow | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Communist Party the U.S. owed nothing because the only payment the Communists wanted was the weakness and eventual destruction of the U.S. To the Russian people, however, the U.S. would always owe far more than the courtesy of a distinction Eaton failed to make-the distinction between tyrants and their slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: How to Help Moscow | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Though raised under Naziism, young Nickel satisfied the Military Government people that he was no Nazi. Explained Hermann solemnly: "The merit is not my own. I owe my understanding to my parents. If I had had Nazi parents, I would have been a Nazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First Since Hitler | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...this bleak philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre, 42, enjoys more prestige in despairing Europe than any other writer of the postwar generation. Fashionable groups in conquered France took up existentialism; now defeated Germany is reportedly infested with it. Existentialists trace themselves back to Danish Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, but they also owe a debt to Nazi Philosopher Martin Heidegger. Pope Pius XII has branded their ideas a "philosophy of disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Existentialist Purgatory | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...busy in wartime 1940 to celebrate. *Who probably never said in so many words that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." There were no organized cricket or football playing fields in Wellington's day. He did say: "I really believe I owe my state of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden [of Eton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Old Schools | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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