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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protest strongly the way in which you speak of our beloved King Leopold III of Belgium, when you say "Better to perish in beauty" [TIME, May 10]. The Belgians wish that His Majesty should continue in beauty as was his whole life, faultless and above reproach in the service of his people. Mr. Spaak himself has recognized publicly that the King's conduct has been wholly above reproach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...integrity to our own political tactics by putting an end to the shameful practice of branding as a Communist everyone who espouses a liberal reform or promotes a program for the underprivileged. We must keep our country a place where men are not afraid to think and read and speak freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: A System That Works | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...platform sat Mrs. Attlee, knitting. She likes short speeches, even when her husband makes them. Sir Stafford Cripps, whom some call an economic dictator, sat modestly behind a row of executive committee members-he is not a member of the executive-and was not invited to speak. Nor did he ask to take part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REVOLUTIONISTS WITHOUT WHOOP-DE-DOO | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...What kind of French shall we speak in 25 years?" asked Ottawa's Le Droit last week. "Will the laborer's jargon, which we know is composed of French and English badly pronounced, be purified . . ? Will the language of commerce, renouncing its innumerable borrowings from English, be a truly French language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: L'Arbitre est un Robber! | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

This week, for the 959th time, Society President Jules Masse took to the air over CKAC (Montreal). As always, he opened with Expressions a corriger cette semaine. His prime examples: "Hip! Hip! Hurray!" should give way to "Hourra! Bravo!" and in the counting house Frenchmen should speak of un verificateur de limes, not un auditeur de limes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: L'Arbitre est un Robber! | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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