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Winter is no bargain, either. Its snowstorms, which the dauntless U.S. postal service defies, stall the trains TIME depends on for prompt U.S. delivery; its uncertain weather and icing conditions ground the planes delivering TIME'S pictures to the printer and the film we use for printing our International editions abroad. Once it trapped a correspondent we desperately wanted to get in touch with for a solid month on a tiny Atlantic island...
LaGuardia himself had sent a bluntly pleading cable to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek ("it might not be couched in diplomatic language, but I tried to make it so he would understand") demanding "personal and prompt" action about CNRRA. "[UNRRA's] purpose," cabled the Little Flower, "is to help the rehabilitation of China and not the financial rehabilitation of warehouses...
...Wars I & II, plus a trio of lengthy appendices listing the instances of Soviet military aggression, treaty-breaking and antidemocratic political chicanery. But the book's heart is in the relatively few pages in which ex-Ambassador Bullitt brusquely presses upon the American public the necessity of taking prompt steps to surround the U.S.S.R. with democratic military forces...
...democratic nations of Europe into an "Inter-European League" (membership would also be open to the Anglo-American-controlled sectors of Germany). Britain and the U.S. will not only do their utmost to raise these nations' standards of living (i.e., increase their fighting strength), but will promise them prompt military aid in the event of their coming into conflict with an expanding U.S.S.R. Simultaneously, intensive anti-Soviet propaganda must be carried on throughout Europe, and extended, by radio, into the U.S.S.R. itself. "Our ultimate aim [in Europe] should be to free all the states of central and eastern Europe...
...Smoker there? The audit of the Student Council Treasurer, as provided by the Constitution, is entirely too perfunctory to afford much assurance. Certain choice details such as the $800 loan granted the Freshman Class in May of 1945 without even the formality of a Council vote, might prompt the undergraduate to look further. But other expenditures would only emphasize the complete divorce that he, and students like him, have accepted from the control of the money he pledges. The expenditure of $275 in five years for private Council dinners and Council pictures is not an expense that many students would...