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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generosity & Atomic Bombs. White-haired Dr. Ernest Jones told reporters: "Germany never got over its sense of guilt for starting the first world war . . . [And] do you think the Russians have ever got over killing their Great Father [the Czar]?" Dr. G. R. Hargreaves, chief medical officer of Unilever, thought the British "experience a terrific amount of guilt about American generosity." In the U.S., he had noted a "national feeling of guilt for having dropped the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: How Not to Throw Banana Peels | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...usually covered up by leftist phrases such as "Socialism in the Soviet Union has ceased to be revolutionary" . . . It would be pertinent to mention that Trotsky . . . also started accusing the [Soviet] Communist Party of being degenerate . .. behind the leftist phrase of world revolution. However, Trotsky himself degenerated . . . We think that Trotsky's political career is instructive. . . . We are disturbed by the present condition of the Yugoslav Communist Party . . . The Party cadres are under the control of the Minister of State Security. According to the theory of Marxism, the Party should control all state organs in the country . . . while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Best Years of Our Lives | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...When I have a song to sing," says Betty Grable, by way of explaining her success as a movie star, "I feel good singing it. I don't think, 'Gee! I'm the greatest singer.' " Neither does Miss Grable think, gee! she is a great actress: "I just say and do the things I do every day of my life. Gosh, it could be me up there on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Living the Daydream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...never seen anything like it, I said to Alice, we can't sell any more books because we have no more to sell . . . to think how hard it used to be . . . it's nice to be glorious and popular in your old age, and to buy bones for Basket [her dog] and be admired by the young, well bless you kiddies bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Makers of Wonder Bread | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...should die, think only this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All One Could Wish ... | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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