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When the Soviet representatives meet ours at the conference table they are in effect meeting the last tottering princes of original sin; and they cannot give way to us without yielding divine principle. That is one reason why the Russians are so difficult to get on with in pagan assemblies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Destiny's Men | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Obviously there are two ways to avert an atomic war. One is a voluntary yielding of sovereignty by all nations to a world government. This alternative is impossible in time to check the atomic armaments race which has already begun and which will soon produce its inevitable sequel. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Russia's bargaining position had been improved by an unexpectedly weak U.S. policy. When Washington, yielding to pressure, let it be known recently that U.S. forces would be "gradually withdrawn" from China, American officers and men in the theater lost interest in their jobs, joined the clamor to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: Wanted: a Decision | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

This week the Elihus grew desperate and inserted and advertisement in the New York Times. ". ... Yielding $420 per annum . . . it is open to all male students with the surname of Leavenworth."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Your Name Leavenworth? The Yalies Want to See You | 8/30/1945 | See Source »

But in the country south of Matabeleland, the old forms were dying fast. The inhabitants of the two principal white territories (Britain's Cape Colony and the independent South African Republic of Dutch-descended Boer farmers) were no longer surrounded by wild Hottentots, Zulus, Bastaards and Griquas. The country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Black, A Briton, A Boer | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

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