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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest and most probable international moves in the future is the actual alliance of the U.S., Great Britain and perhaps Russia, not just to win the war, but to rule the peace. With the future of Russia still a great unknown, for months practical men in England and the U.S.* have been working hard on the first leg of the probable triple alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beyond the Horizon | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Government leaders, and the leftist press was not very kind to an ideologist who had declared: "When we are in power, the head of a prominent Jew will be stuck on every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." After Doktor Rosenberg had laid a swastika wreath on the Unknown Soldier's cenotaph, a British war veteran heaved the wreath into the Thames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rosenberg's Russia | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...closes his book with a few loud notes of hope: One is a salute to the FBI, which has, with the collaboration of some 150,000 local police, put counter-espionage on a national basis. One is a tribute to those "unknown soldiers," the private citizens of Occupied Europe who are collaborating with British spies and British bombers in a little total espionage of their own. One is the most pleasing version yet of the causes of the Hess Flight and the Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Improbabilities | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Japanese envoy, Saburo Kurusu, said that Washington was ready for war with Japan. President Roosevelt got his Neutrality Act repealed-but by a chillingly narrow margin (see p. 22). But unlike the President's trip to Warm Springs, this great journey into the unknown was nothing the country looked forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Trip Postponed | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Pleased with his exhibition, George Washington Carver is equally pleased with a brand-new automatic elevator, a present from his admirer Henry Ford, which was installed six weeks ago to save his aged legs (he was born a slave at an unknown date in the 1860s) the 19 painful steps up to his room. "Exquisite elevator," he chortled. "The doctor said he couldn't do much for me as long as I climbed those 19 steps. I'm not very old, but I've been around a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Black Leonardo | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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