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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many, serve to illustrate what Correspondent Low has been up against intrying to get the news of Russia's satellite Balkan countries. During arecent meeting with a Western-educated top official of one of the satellites, they talked in normal conversational idiom until Low asked a leading political question. The official said: "I'll answer you, but from now on, you understand, I must use my own vocabulary." Then he began: "As for the imperialist-fascist Western powers attempting to spread their poison within these freedom-loving democracies . . ." Says Low: "At that juncture you either abandon your line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Would he "discuss the question of moral obligation to use armed force in resisting attack on one of the members?" That was the heart of the matter. Hold your hats, the Secretary warned, there's been a lot of loose thought on the distinction between moral and legal obligation. Decent people usually carry out their contracts because of moral obligation. Some decent people default in their contracts because they get in trouble one way or another, and then they go to court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Lessons Learned | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Last week the Indiana Farm Bureau began polling its members about their 1949 vacation plans. Usually the Farm Bureau sponsors tours around the U.S. This time, for the first time, the bureau had a question to ask prospering Hoosier farmers: How would they like sponsored tours to Hawaii, Alaska, Europe, South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Plenty in the Smokehouse | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...CRIMSON is entitled to its opinion as to whether the New Student was a bona fide Harvard student publication or not. It is not entitled, on the record, to impute motives to the Faculty Committee or question its good faith. W. J. Bender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Bender Replies | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...letter to the Student Council last April, Dean Bender said, "The question of control will ordinarily be impossible to decide conclusively in the case of publications connected with fascist or communist movements whose code of morality is well known. So the Committee did not attempt to investigate the control of the New Student." We believe this shows that the politics of the New Student entered into the Committee's approach to the question of recognition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean Bender Replies | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

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