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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lattre and the defense ministers, however, are proceeding on the assumption that naval and bomber strength are primarily a U.S., not a Western Union, responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN UNION: Defense on Land | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Communist philosophy was essentially atheistic and that the only morality it recognized was based upon what was good or bad for the "world revolution." Pius XII's excommunication decree was an effort to expose the Communist duplicity. He was repeating: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." The strength of the Pope's divisions would be measured by how well he succeeded in clarifying the 20th Century's great confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: The Great Confusion | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...Strength for Propaganda. The man who started the crusade in Trouillas is a wispy little bus driver named Joseph Fabrégas. Ever since World War I, Fabrégas had been thinking about Gandhi and world peace. After Gandhi was murdered, he began thinking about Garry Davis, self-proclaimed citizen of the world, whose movement began to mushroom last year in Paris. Fabrégas kept saying to his passengers: "Some people go on hunger strikes to demonstrate their love of peace. We in the Garry Davis movement eat well and drink well and use the resulting strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD GOVERNMENT: Maybe That's What We Need | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

COORDINATION, UNDER U.S. LEADERSHIP, of British, Dutch, French and Portuguese policy in Asia. Out of desperation, the French and the Dutch, in the past few years, have taken some unwise steps; these could have been avoided if the inevitable retreat from imperialism had been organized jointly with strength and confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A PROGRAM FOR ASIA | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...tried for five hours to free himself from a narrow flue, "sent another apprentice up the flue to attach a cord to one of [his] legs. Despite the agonized shrieks of the tortured boy, Rae and another man hauled on their end of the rope with all their strength. Finally, when neither shrieks nor groans were heard, Rae, sensing that the boy was dead, drank a dram of whiskey and left the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Blots | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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