Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example of recent British-Indian relations. When India surprisingly decided two months ago to stay in the Commonwealth with Britain, the Communist press howled with disappointment and rage. Well it might. India's decision does not balance the loss of China, but it does point the way to a constructive relationship between the Western and the Asian democracies. Some immediate tasks of an anti-Communist democratic grouping would be: retrieving Burma from its present chaos; helping the Indonesians make a go of independence; stopping the economic and political "slide" in the Philippines...
Leopold the golfer acts with his own mind, chooses his own partners, and arranges his own schedule. Leopold the monarch behaved in the same independent way. This, as every student of constitutional monarchy knows, can be dangerous for the state. Certainly, it is not good for a king's popularity. Leopold, for example, just before the Belgian parliamentary elections in which the "royal question" of his return was the prime issue (TIME, July 4), decided without consulting anyone to play in the French international golf tournament. Staunch monarchists winced; the King, they said, ought not to compete with just...
...demonstration of students and socialists shouting "Down with Plaza!" The President, following his policy of ignoring or minimizing plots, immediately ordered the release of students arrested in the demonstration, and requested that the judge assigned to the conspiracy trial free the defendants if there was any legal way...
...wilds of Alaska, a small private plane settled down on its landing skis and slid to a stop. A few minutes later, after strapping on some snowshoes, Pilot Terris Moore set out for the last nine miles of his journey on foot. He had come all the way from Boston to make his round of visits; before accepting the presidency of the University of Alaska, he had decided that he should call on each of the regents to talk things over...
...looked like a pressed blossom. It was part of the original mold from which he extracted penicillin 21 years ago. Then Fleming set out for Rochester, Minn., and other research centers to do some personal research: he wants to know what details other workers have found out about the way penicillin works in the bloodstream. He also wants to learn more about the newer antibiotics: streptomycin, neomycin and aureomycin...