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No matter how much cramming Secretary Marshall may have done in preparation for the Moscow Conference, he won't succeed in moving the world any nearer permanent peace until he and the others who formulate our foreign policy face the unpleasant truth that the Soviet Union doesn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: History & a Legacy | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

But despite the necessity for helping Greece and the "legality" of our moving in, unilaterial action on the part of the United States in the Greek crisis would constitute a subversion of the United Nations. Chapter VIII, Section 1, of the Dumbarton Oaks plan for U.N. organization states: "The Security...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Tragedy | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

The Cassandras could cite unpleasant facts. Coal production was 80% of the prewar level, iron & steel barely 87% of 1938 and only 65% of 1929. Exports last year totaled only 29,635,000,000 francs, while imports reached a whopping 52,690,000,000 francs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Too Many Compliments | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

Fearful hallucinations among the politically conservative about the new Student Council Constitution have faded as the recent Council elections become history without unpleasant incident. Encouraging evidences of students interest, the spirited support of candidates and the generally heavy voting, serve to vindicate the new Constitution as a concrete advance towards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Afterthought | 3/8/1947 | See Source »

In the current show, Lachaise's academic portrait studies were elegant as ever, but to a new generation of untutored eyes his swollen little abstractions of parts of the body seemed simply unpleasant, and the mountainously female figures on which his real fame depends carried bovine principles of beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Polar Idols | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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