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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Stalin can contain Titoism within its present manageable proportions, or whether it will widen into an irreparable schism, is a question for the best Russian brains. But Titoism has already achieved one thing-it has exploded the theory that communism, if it came to power, could bring the world unity and peace. For that, at least, loudmouthed Dictator Tito deserved the West's gratitude. As one American observer in Europe put it last week: "The time is surely come when the West should stop thinking of communism as a block which might splinter but can never crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Great Schism | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...test, spirochetes from syphilitic rabbits are mixed with human blood. When the antibodies are present in the blood, the energetic spirochetes stop moving and apparently die, indicating that the patient has syphilis. Therefore, Dr. Nelson called his substances "Treponemal immobilizing antibodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Than the Wassermann? | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...What the Church did through its saints, apostles, heroes and martyrs in meeting crisis after crisis should give the lesson and the encouragement. The creeds were all manmade, under various social conditions and against various political backgrounds. So were the organizational side and the different theological developments. Under the present social, economic, political and cultural conditions here in North China, Christians should be courageous enough to dissociate the Gospel and their churches from historical accretions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Challenge | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Gaiety v. Wit. There is no earth-shaking action in the past & present story that Irish-born, English-educated Joyce Cary chooses to tell in To Be a Pilgrim (the fourth of his novels to be published in the U.S.), but Author Cary manages to convey one man's view of what has been happening to English life since Tom Wilcher's Victorian youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vote for Victoria | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Adams House will present the second of a series of forums at 8 p.m. this evening in the Adams Upper Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Holds Forum | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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