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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to find out, for example, what people think of the Marshall Plan. Are they for it or against it? Do they believe it will help or hurt conditions in their countries? Do they believe it would make war with Russia more likely? Will it stop the advance of Communist ideas? We want to know what people think about the United Nations, about a United States of Europe, about who is gaining in the present conflict between the U.S. and Russia, and which side they think will be ahead 20 years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Rules Committee must not stop there. It must further examine the value of UMT in terms of the United States' traditionally non-militaristic role in world affairs. Even if UMT would from a well-trained, efficient, aggressive nucleus for a future army to fight a future war, it could not heop but provide simultaneously an additional impetus to the complicated forces that are inexorably herding the world toward hostility, aggression, and unless halted, towards eventual conflict. The United States has traditionally avoided peacetime conscription. Consequently, the adoption of UMT would be tantamount to an admission that we consider peace more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Universal Military Training | 2/28/1948 | See Source »

...Arab is indiscriminately anti-Semitic, Hunter added. He believes the Jews to be of a "diabolical design" and means to stop them before they get any further. Commenting on the UN plan to partition Palestine with economic union, Hunter pointed out that its two-fold aim makes the plan "ingenious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hunter Claims Propaganda Makes Arabs Anti-Semitic | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

...million for stop-gap aid to China, France, Austria, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...engineers' remedy: stop the well digging and dig a tunnel through the mountains to bring water from Toluca's Lerma River for the soggy but thirsty capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Sinking City | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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