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Immediately after his election President Renner stepped over to Vienna's Presidential Building to swear in his successor as Chancellor, Leopold Figl, head of the Volkspartei. He also swore in the Figl Cabinet-as amended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Government Approved | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Swearing Is Not Basic. "Every time the Big Three meet," says Richards, "the need for a universal language is emphasized." Basic, being all English, is not a synthetic tongue like Volapük, Esperanto, Europan or Ido; and Richards neither hopes nor expects to see Basic supplant regular English. "It's too dull," he says, "and you can't swear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Globalingo | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...wish to state that I stand here today with [a] clear conscience. I want to thank the United States of America for a fair trial.* I swear before my Creator that I am innocent of the charges brought against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Attention! | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOMIC AGE: Russian Cosmos | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Britain's queen-to-be, 19-year-old Princess Elizabeth, looks more & more like her imperious grandmother, Queen Mary. But London's hopeful nightclub owners swear they also see signs in her of the lightsome strain evident in her great-grandfather, Edward VII, and her uncle, ex-King Edward VIII. Last week for the first time Elizabeth and her sister, 15-year-old Princess Margaret Rose, stepped out. They showed a touch of the Edwards, but more-much more-of Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Dominant Strain | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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