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...anti-imperialists, the bitterness and the imperialism of the McCarthys, the Mc-Cormicks, and the McCarrans take the form of denouncing us as Socialists, and, above all, as "anti-Americans." Perhaps we ought to forget that superiority which has always made us too proud to answer back. We might select a few of the daily vituperations made in America against Britain, and start a campaign against the anti-Britishism so rife in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Less than nine months ago, President Eisenhower stood before the U.N. General Assembly and made his historic proposal to pool atomic energy for peacetime uses. When the Soviet Union quietly sabotaged East-West negotiations on the plan, the U.S. turned to more limited discussions with a select group of nations. This week the President revealed for the first time the result of those discussions. In a brief television speech, he announced that the U.S. had negotiated agreement on an international agency to pool both atomic knowledge and materials and to turn them to peaceful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sharing the Atom | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...tried to buttress Flanders' generalized motion with a specific six-count amendment, which included the old charge that Joe had shaken down Lustron Corp. to collect a $10,000 fee for writing a housing booklet. Republican Leader William Knowland moved to refer the censure motion to a select committee of three Republicans and three Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Condemnation Proceedings | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...hearings staged to investigate both sets of charges, these persons figured prominently. Select from the statements below the one which best identifies each of these pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet. For most of the 105 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example: 0. The President of the U.S. is: 1. Nixon 3. Eisenhower 5. Stevenson 2. Hoover 4. Truman Eisenhower, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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