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...first: Director Elizabeth Mason of Santiago's Colegio Americano para Senoritas, also a U.S. Protestant missionary (Methodist...
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
...Page 16, para. 5, Dec. 31, 1945 issue TIME: "As the year started, Harry Truman had no idea that his Government was engaged in atomic research...
Chapter 5, para. 34, page 87, H. D. Smyth's official report on the atomic project: "President Truman, who as a United States Senator had been aware of the project and its magnitude...
...last week planes from Britain carried tons of top-priority ballot papers for distant war theaters, some (e.g., in Burma) to be dropped to combat troops by para chute. Because these far-flung soldier votes will be slow in returning, the election result will not be announced before July...