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"... I pledge myself to rally the masses to defend the Soviet Union, the land of victorious socialism. I pledge myself to remain at all times a vigilant and firm defender of the Leninist line of the party, the only line that insures the triumph of Soviet power in the United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: We Do Not Question | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Somewhat against its better judgment, Chapman & Hall, the London publishing house of which Evelyn's father was head, had brought out his first slim, satiric novel, Decline and Fall. It was a lighthearted little tale of moral turpitude about a young Oxonian named Paul Pennyfeather, who became a teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Knife in the Jocular Vein | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

If the war seemed a revolution in England, it seemed to most of the U.S. (and still seems) a war for independence. The chief weakness of Triumph of Freedom is that Author Miller does not distinguish between the two. The revolution and the war of independence went on simultaneously, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War or Revolution? | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

In the face of previous commitments by both chambers of Congress, the House lopped off more than $2 billion from funds already authorized for ECA and other foreign aid. The cuts were made by New York's John Taber, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, a man always vigilant to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Shipping the Oars | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

"In the north, where law enforcement is stricter and the S.P.C.A. more vigilant, public pits do not advertise, but they operate at Wheeling, W. Va. . . ." and

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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