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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your review of the cinema, The Lost Moment [TIME, Dec 8], based on the adumbrated novel by Henry James, the scribbler (to use the vulgar expression), is sufficient, I think, to suggest the ponderous prose, the-some personages might almost label-circum-locuted prose of Henry, the dear fusspot, James, but, may one reflect, and I do appreciate your unwonted forbearance, that the pages of TIME are not precisely the place-one may relievedly observe-where one expects to encounter . . . the ambiguous, attenuated, ' grayed verbiage, the niceties of the vaporous review mentioned somewhere above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...plan, considerably expanded and revised since its germ was first proposed by Secretary Marshall at Harvard last June, took into account the use of Western Europe's last unexpended cash & credits, and the possibility of aid from other sources. But it frankly recognized that the U.S. would have to pay most of the bill. Its main points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Plan | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Wedemeyer frankly made his case on a straight anti-Communist line. To him, it seemed essential that the U.S. should oppose Communist aggression wherever it threatened. The only criterion should be the ability of the U.S. to supply aid and the ability of the recipient to use it. Said he: "It doesn't matter whether Chiang is a benevolent despot-which he is-or a republican or a democrat. The fact is, the man has fought Communism all his life. He stood by us as an ally in the war when he might have accepted favorable peace terms from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gesture | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Taft prodded the Senate Banking and Currency Committee into quickly reporting out an almost identical measure. It provided for extension of export and transportation controls, and empowered the Administration to limit the use of grain in distilling. It ignored all of President Truman's requests for such heavy weapons as rationing, wage and price controls, compulsory allocations. Allocations could be made only through "voluntary" agreements with industry. This meant, cried Minority Leader Alben Barkley, that the President would have "to go out huckstering among business" to get agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Exit Gyrating | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...truth is not so simple. There are many roads to power and Communists are willing to use them all. So resistance to the Reds takes many forms. Some of them are in the Communists' own conspiratorial patterns. A reporter tracing anti-Communist forces in Milan this month could begin in the Great Hall of Sacred Heart University, on the day of Milan's patron saint, and arrive by a fairly short line at a midnight session with machine guns of the Catholic underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: In a World of Wolves | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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