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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such common purpose among Western democracies was far more important than technological advantage or more atomic bombs, Monty insisted, and it might mean "some small loss of sovereignty for the common purpose." But, said Montgomery earnestly, "the premium is not very great. The dividend will be enormous-it will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: None Can Stand Alone | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

He also made a quick trip to the United States Military Academy at West Point. On arrival he was told that century-old tradition permitted him, as a head of state, to make and receive one request during his visit. He asked a pardon for all cadets undergoing punishment for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coast to Coast on a Red Carpet | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

It was not so much the defeat in the November elections (the Republicans were used to defeat) but the direful question: What was wrong with the Republican Party? Nobody knew. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor James Duff thought the party ought "to shed some of the aloofness we have." Harold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Thin Pickings | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Jackson was dissenting sharply from a Supreme Court ruling last week, disbarring an aged patent lawyer from practice before the U.S. Patent Office because he had submitted a ghostwritten article as evidence. He was also pointing up an old Washington custom: ghostwriters had become as much a part of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Trouble with Ghosts | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Later, the apparatus wanted Hiss to speed up the flow of stolen documents. "I told Mr. Hiss that we wished to have papers brought out every night." Chambers said this was promptly done. Some of the secret documents were typed copies of originals. Then Chambers repeated another old accusation: "Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE: The Opened | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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