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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite frenzied attempts by the Arab world to clog the machinery of the United Nations, the General Assembly voted last Saturday to partition Palestine and give the Jewish people a homeland. The thirty-three-to-thirteen ballot brought truculent howls from the delegates of six Arab states and the threat of a Holy War to preserve the sacred sterility of Palestine's soil. With the passage of this first important legislative decree the United Nations reaches a vital turning point in its history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sovereignty or Security? | 12/2/1947 | See Source »

Whatever their aim, they had made a pretty good answer to the U.S.'s highhanded threat to ban bulb imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Over the Tulips | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...arrived in Washington, D.C. last week on an important commercial mission. They were there to talk the Department of Agriculture out of limiting imports of Netherlands bulbs (1946 imports: $8,000,000). The department wanted to cut bulb shipments to "amounts needed for propagation." Its ostensible reason was the threat of importing contagious plant diseases along with the bulbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Over the Tulips | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Expanding on this remark, Baldwin digressed to a criticism of American foreign policy on the ground that supporting reactionary governments rather than "middle-of-the-road" forces is a fundamental error that manufactures a previously non-existent Communist threat in those countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baldwin Fears Trend Against Civil Liberties | 11/26/1947 | See Source »

...sensibly warned the U.S. against trying to hog world shipping. Said the committee: "Many maritime nations are far more dependent [for income] on shipping than is the United States. . . . Any attempt on the part of the United States to monopolize a large part of world shipping . . . could constitute a threat to world peace," by further impoverishing some nations and drying up world trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Master Plan | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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