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...captured Japanese film, moreover, this little picture gives unusually telling emphasis to the fact that it takes two to make a quarrel. (The Japanese film, incidentally, shows the strong ultraromantic influence of Nazi documentaries, which try by melodramatic low-angling and gauze-and-halo effects to turn human beings into creatures out of a legend.) The film is probably the clearest exposition of the rhythm and strategy of a battle that has yet been put on a screen for laymen. Its deeply moving close: an airman, dead in his shattered plane, is given sea burial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 29, 1945 | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...that the war's end is in sight, and Soviet influence is sure to be felt in Central Europe, Russia seems much closer. So for months, influential Swiss groups have been urging their reluctant Government to patch up its quarrel with Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Revolutionaries' Return | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Asked what he had to say about the quarrel (the Regents were appointed by him and his predecessor), Governor Coke Stevenson announced, "I do not think it would be proper to express my views on Friday the 13th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble in Texas | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...Busy to Argue. Western railroad operators were fighting mad at Biddle and Berge last week, but they had little time for a quarrel. Their lines were jammed with a record freight and passenger traffic. Union Pacific's president, big Bill Jeffers, took time out to roar that Berge was suffering from "Potomac fever." Joseph Hays, counsel for the W.A.R.E., said: "Mr. Biddle knows that if his charges were anything more than sheer demagoguery he could take the complaint to the ICC for speedy redress." Hays argued that Attorney General Biddle should have included ICC among the culprits, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Old Story | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Last week the long-smoldering quarrel between Kuomintang and Communist Governments blew up in a shower of sparks. From the Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Chou En-lai came an ugly cry: "There is danger of civil war." In Chungking, Information Minister Liang Han-chao snapped back: "There is no danger of civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Powder Keg | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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