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...better about the whole thing. It makes these long days make a lot more sense. These TIME stories give us an idea of what we're fighting for actually, and anyone who reads them will soon forget the idea that this is nothing more than a little skirmish...
...along a sloping embankment, with revolvers, rifles and shotguns before them, and flung challenges at the plant 300 yards away. "Let the yellow scabs out!" "If we're gonna have war, let's have it now!" But the night shift stayed inside where it was safe. The skirmish line of strikers settled down to wait them...
This was only a skirmish without blood in a cold war without fighting. Had it also been only an alarm? The West might never know; it had no choice but to take such threats seriously. But perhaps even more important last week than the safety of Berlin was a new attitude in Washington towards the safety of all Western Europe. An important conversion had taken place in the Pentagon, which had long taken a dismal view of Western Europe's defenses...
Sound-Off. Near the end of the war he had his first real skirmish with Pan Am, when he tried to operate a route in Mexico, where Pan Am's affiliate, Compania Mexicana de Aviación S.A., was already well established (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). Braniff finally lost the Mexican routes when he made the Mexicans mad by sounding off against local government officials...
Five Ramparts. The skirmish of the week took place at San Severe (pop. 40,000), a poverty-stricken market town amid southern Italy's vineyards. There a Red-led band of 4,000 overpowered the local policemen, stacked up high barricades-gasoline drums, junked autos, mulecarts, one steamroller. When Scelba sent armored cars and regular troops into San Severo, the rebels manned their forts, fired stones, guns and grenades...