Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were printing a Scandinavian edition behind the German blockade in neutral Stockholm from film (of TIME's pages) flown from the U.S. to Britain and then, by blacked-out Mosquito bomber, across the North Sea at night into Sweden. There German officers passing through could read about Allied victories, and the Japanese embassy dutifully cabled TIME's entire contents to Tokyo each week. We never lost a packet of film through enemy action...
...Teheran, Cairo and, eventually, Rome and Paris. After V-J day, when TIME Inc. decided to continue its world-wide publishing operation that had been built up from wartime necessity, we consolidated all of these far-flung printing operations in Paris in the Atlantic edition, so that Europeans could read their copies of TIME while U.S. citizens were reading the same issue. The film developed during the war, now flown from the U.S. to Paris, makes this fast printing schedule possible...
...kick out of passing out some cards Brigadier General Wallace Graham had brought down from Washington. In large type the cards read: "Don't Go Away Mad." In smaller print: "Just Go Away...
...Cyrus Hamlin of Bangor, Me. took off for the Turkish province of Bulgaria. His instructions: "The people needs to be taught to read, hear and reflect." Few did more to teach Bulgarians to read and to reflect than Cyrus Hamlin and his Protestant missionary friends. They translated the New Testament into Bulgarian and helped bring out the first periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed...
...pastors, broken in pretrial examinations, had "confessed." Said the Rev. Zdravko Beglov: "The last three months were not the most agreeable of my life, but they were the most useful. I read 12,000 pages of progressive literature. The security police's attitude was one of trying to explain to me that I was misguided...