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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...closing speech at Geneva, Britain's Representative Harold Wilson forecast the future: "The methods we may have to use in the intervening months and years may appear to be opposed to the principles and methods of the draft [free trade] charter." Then Wilson returned to London and was even more specific: "We shall be working on bilateral agreements instead of multilateral." This meant that Britain, the second greatest trading nation in the world, would still be tied to the ideas of blocked currency and barter agreements that had been developed by Hitler's Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Tough Years Ahead | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...weeks, as the boats rode at anchor, Josef had clutched the sleeves of passers-by on the wharf, pleading: "What is the use? Why don't they give up? I can't bear to think of them on that ship. Please tell them I'm here, tell them to come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: In Palestine or Never | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Argentine Concession. But later in the week, at the midnight deadline for filing treaty drafts, the Argentines handed in one of their own-a treaty for the use of force against aggressors from outside the hemisphere, and nothing but "pacific" measures against aggressors from within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Low-Pressure Diplomacy | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Tennis is a game of no use in itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...great use in respect it maketh a quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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