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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The British are known to favor recognition, chiefly and frankly because they want to safeguard their large trading interests in China. Advocates of recognition in the U.S., whose China trade has always been relatively small, advance more speculative reasons. Most of them base their position on two assumptions: 1) the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Moscow-Peking Axis | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

"In talk about the prospects of 'Titoism' in China, it is generally assumed that all satellites must be treated alike by the Russians without any degrees of dependence. There have been signs that they are willing to accept from China a much looser form of attachment than is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Moscow-Peking Axis | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Last week, in shirtsleeves and summer dresses, some 5,000,000 Australians went to the polls (voting is compulsory; slackers can be fined up to $5). They gave the combined Liberal and Country parties a clear majority of at least 27 seats (by incomplete count) in the new House of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Golden Age Express | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Labor's candidate for the South Bradford district was George Craddock, a 52-year-old union leader and Methodist lay preacher whose slogan was: "Craddock for Security." South Bradford's working people are still poorly dressed and skimpily fed by American standards, but by & large they are better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Front Door v. Back Door | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The candidates' door-to-door canvassers, on their rounds of South Bradford's uniform grey stucco houses, could tell almost before they spoke to the people inside whether they were for Labor or for the Tories. South Bradford's class distinctions are expressed, among other ways, by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Front Door v. Back Door | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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