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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporters surrounded him. He was a little puzzled by the questions. What was so difficult to understand? God had given him the power to cure; he was using it. Avak removed his hood and hairnet, passed a comb through his tangled hair. Said he: "I think I can cure the younger Arakelian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Faith | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Turkey is an even more pertinent example. It has an army of 675,000 (slightly larger than the U.S. force) mobilized against Russian pressure. Turkey is not going to demobilize until it is pretty sure that the Truman Doctrine will be consistent U.S. policy and that the Russians will understand that the U.S. intends, by money, leadership and arms, to protect other nations against Russian aggression. The Leyte was in Istanbul harbor last week not as a threat but as a symbol of that U.S. security policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Super-Armed Peace | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Tension over Tenses. Not that Molotov conceded much. To understand his note it was necessary to go back to the Moscow agreement of December 1945, when the U.S. and Russia decided to partition Korea during a period of trusteeship while the Koreans learned to rule themselves. After liberation, when the Koreans heard about this deal, they were unanimously enraged. Demonstrations against trusteeship broke out all over the country. In Seoul, the capital, the liberal People's Republic Group, which turned out to be a Communist front, said it was going to demonstrate against trusteeship, too. The U.S. commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: More Important than Battles | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...instance, when one man must do something to injure the other"-she consults her husband, who studied law. Mr. Reback, whom his wife calls "Tootsie," is a reader of the Wall Street Journal, and "he puts it all in a paragraph. Often I don't in the least understand what it means, but I break up that paragraph and scatter it through the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What the People Want | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...speech struck home in Moscow. Marshall and Dulles could read those reactions in the words of Ilya Ehrenburg, Moscow journalist: "Don't these misters understand that if we stood up before the armies of Hitler we shall not shake before a dozen rattling speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Education of the Misters | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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