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Before he left Moscow, Father Orle-manski convinced U.S. newsmen that he possessed evidence of willingness among top Soviet officials to carry out the constitutional promise of full religious freedom. (For news of religion in Russia, see p. 42.) His evidence would have to be something special to quell the furor which his Russian visit had created...
...Prime Minister Milan Hodza, now in the U.S., hope that Slovaks in Slovakia will forget their taste of "independence" and cooperate in making a healthy, democratic postwar Czechoslovakia. Priest-President Tiso apparently thinks that they may be willing to try. Said he, in an obvious and ominous move to quell opposition to his brand of independence: "If there were no executions until now, it is not because a priest could not sign a death sentence...
...President, prodded by OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes, last week acted swiftly to quell the uprising. To WLB, virtually toothless for 21 months, he handed a shiny, brand-new set of store teeth. Gazing at their new dentures in the mirror, WLB members clicked them contentedly, seemed to think them a perfect...
...Panic. The aftermath of Hamburg was a great fear throughout the Reich. Refugees streamed from the stricken city, spread tales of horror. German propagandists had once spoken gloatingly of the destruction which their Luftwaffe visited on British cities; they could find no words now to quell the rising terror of their people under the Allied bombs. The Völkischer Beobachter, official organ of the Nazi Party, wrote: "The whole Reich and the largest cities are within reach of enemy planes. Nobody underestimates the imminence of danger." Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, who once said: "If a single bomb...
Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...