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...doldrums of a warm June week, G.O.P. leaders made one decision. They would not adjourn Congress sine die on July 31. Instead they would recess until next January, with the provision that Congress could be recalled by either the majority or minority leadership. Republicans felt they could not leave the country in sole charge of Harry Truman. They wanted to be ready to rush up like a bucket brigade any time next fall if fire broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: You Are Crooked, Sirs | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Time is the "sine qua non" for achieving industrial peace. Time and a sincere effort by both parties to understand the problems of the other. Vindictive, partisan legislation will only add fuel to the flames and postpone the day when the full industrial might of this nation can surge into action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tomorrow The Bludgeon | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

...sine we do no know whether Moscow's intentions are honorable or otherwise, how can we say whether American foreign policy should be one of toughness or of compromise? We cannot; and therefore the goal of an effective foreign policy necessarily becomes the solution of this perplexing conundrum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Now Comrade? | 9/26/1946 | See Source »

...Nationalists were winning China's Civil War. Prospects of Government control of all Manchuria (the sine qua non of a strong, independent China) were brighter last week than at any time since liberation. Yet the news from China was bad-appallingly bad. China was hurtling into economic disaster and political anarchy. Its causes: 1) Communist rebellion; 2) failure of the U.S. to send enough prompt aid; 3) the corrupt inefficiency of the National Government. Last week TIME Correspondent William Gray took a long, hard look at China. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bad Government | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...clear that the political factor was the deciding one, but the uncertain international situation had also weighed heavily. Now the Crossroads' chiefs wondered whether their big show would ever come off, or whether it might not be tabled sine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Decision at the Crossroads | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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