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Within the Mukden siege ring the refugees are registered again, inspected again. Since horsecarts are not allowed beyond Kaiyuan, they must be sold for whatever price the racketeering army men may offer. Communist currency is confiscated. The wheaten cakes are broken by inspectors looking for concealed opium. Then the authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 30,000,000 Uprooted Ones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

The most important and the most terrible in the Marxist brood are those who inherited the cold, disciplined logic necessary for the serious pursuit of power. Their leader is the late Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. When the Russian people, without his help, snatched at democracy, he snatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Dr. Crankley's Children | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Out of a grey sky, flying in from Algiers, after an 18-year exile, appears Palmiro Togliatti-and proceeds to mold, the clay. He announces that there must be no antiroyalist agitation. It might even be advisable to roll up the Red Flag for a while, in favor of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Wilde, he declares, was a great doctor, although his detractors have put him down as a mere provincial medico. He was certainly no saint, and his quick temper and generally unwashed appearance made him act and look like even less of one. "Why are Dr. Wilde's nails black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wilde Senior | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

The independent Liberal, Dr. Jorge Eliécar Gaitan, a rabble-rousing labor lawyer, was so far from the elegant Colombian political tradition that he perspired when he talked, mussed his hair, and even ripped off his collar after the first hour. No one knew what his popular support was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Three in a Match | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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