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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined to stop aid to Greek guerrillas from Greece's northern neighbors, but it would work as long as possible within the U.N. framework. Last week the first step was taken. Greece, charging that there had been a breach of peace, invoked Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. Under that chapter the Security Council can apply economic or military sanctions against Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria if they continue to support armed aggression against Greece. If the international brigade moves into Greece, and Russia vetoes action under Chapter VII, the U.S. is prepared to take step two: invoke Article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Perilous Veto | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Next of Attlee's emergency meetings was a huddle with leaders of the Trade Union Council. Asked Attlee: would the unions again accept wartime regulations forbidding workers to leave essential industries; would they please stop being stubborn about keeping able and willing foreign workers out of the factories? The union leaders agreed. But they still had to make that agreement stick with their membership, including a sizable bloc of Communist shop stewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: On the Brink | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Dictyostelium discoideum is no ordinary amoeba; its cells have hidden capabilities. Thousands of them will be grazing peacefully, paying no attention to one another. Then a few will drift together, forming a little clump. All the amoebae for microns* around stop their feeding and dividing. Like city people running to the scene of an accident, they swarm toward the growing center (see cut). Some join end to end and stream in gay little chains. By thousands and tens of thousands they pile up in a heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cellular Cooperation | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...post as advisory surgeon to the Army during World War II. Meanwhile, in public speeches, Dr. Sauerbruch demanded "freedom" for German scientists. In the final battle of Berlin, he sent a courier to Hitler demanding in the name of the endangered Charité patients that the fighting stop immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Herr Doctor | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Stop a Bus. In Havana, Maria Ramirez Artiles stood impatiently in the rain waiting for a bus, furiously watched two flit right by. The third bus stopped-after a window was smashed and a passenger beaned by indignant Maria's well-aimed rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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