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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he asserted what all Britons yearn to believe: that Britain will lose nothing in the give-& -take. Said Eden: "Many have a suspicion that ... we have committed ourselves to limit or exclude our interest in certain parts of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For Britain | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Postwar. Both yearn avidly for social reforms (their primary goal: job security). But Jacques wants these things achieved through private enterprise, Jack favors Government controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Jack & Jacques | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Killer at Work. When invasion comes, Darnand's job will be to keep order in the rear of the German defenders. In advance of invasion, his job is to quiet those Frenchmen who yearn too strongly for it. His personally appointed courts now have the power of life & death over any Frenchman they can catch. His thugs do not require even this veneer of legality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Bully | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Last week in Bermuda, three British delegates, three American delegates, and assorted advisers, censors and other assistants held the first of a series of international conferences initiated by President Roosevelt. Subject: refugees, and the plight of oppressed millions who yearn to escape from Nazi Europe. Announced accomplishments: none, as might have been expected of any such conference in wartime. The official explanation (by Richard Kidston Law, Britain's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Must Not Be Betrayed | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...shift in emphasis came about be cause most Broadway columnists secretly yearn for the dignity that goes with straight news columning, and have used the war as a springboard for a leap into general punditry. And, trendwise as they are, all realize that mischievous chitchat is no commodity to market in wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mr. Two Million Circulation | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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