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...cover. So today's techniques are largely confined to whispering campaigns in industrial centers, promotion of racial violence, draft dodging, food hoarding, agitation for "democratic" opposition to the Administration. The objective, says Carlson, is to sabotage "with every means at their command, a quick Allied victory ... to ,prolong the conflict in order to intensify . . . work of dissension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpents and Vipers | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...system is revived, Europe, once the center of Christian culture and world power, is "in danger of receding into its own glorious past." FORTUNE thinks the U.S. should wish Europe a brighter future, figures that European unification would 1) uphold Christendom; 2) eliminate some causes of war and thus prolong peace. The article shows how this unification can grow naturally from steps to be taken during the war. Specific goals: 1) A European Council of all continental members of the United Nations, plus Britain, Russia, the U.S. When the Council has put Europe on the track to federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Plan for Europe | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...French Empires were fighting. They were there not for the sake of Tunisia; no one on that terrain was defending his doorstep-not directly. But Tunisia is a threshold of Europe. Every Italian and every German on the battle fields of Tunisia knew that each day he could prolong the defense of Tunisia was postponing by one more day the Allied invasion of Europe. And for the Allies, for men like Lieut. General Patton, there was urgency to destroy this stubborn Tunisian delaying force in time to make 1943 the decisive, if not final, year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fight Against the Champ | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Nazis' Bucharest radio was loudly urging the Russians to make a separate peace. Said the broadcaster in Russian: "Stalin is trying to prolong the war by promising his people help from the Allies. But the Russians have now seen that the Allies do not intend to give serious aid. The Anglo-American press openly repudiates all promises of further assistance; consequently the Russian people have grown angry, feeling they have been duped. Further extension of the war is nothing less than suicide for Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Stalin and His Allies | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

Eliot House's championship eight meets its counterpart, Trumbull College of Yale, at New Haven today as the Crimson representatives seek to prolong the victory streak over the Elis which they started back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Crew Meets Yale's Trumbull College Eight in New Haven Harbor Today | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

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