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...Heavier Yoke. After the war he went back, trusting in the Russians as firmly as he had trusted in France and Britain. The Russians, too, betrayed his optimism. When Klement Gottwald demanded power, Benes might have stopped him, but only at the risk of civil war. Benes gave in to him, as he had to Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Death of an Optimist | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...each of his three great decisions, 1915, 1938 and 1948, Benes did what seemed best at the time. No contemporary of Benes, anywhere, had a right to brand him as wrong. Yet as it worked out, his beloved Czechs today live under a yoke infinitely heavier than Franz Josef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Death of an Optimist | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...heavy that yoke was for Benes himself was related by his U.S.-naturalized brother John, recently returned from a long stay in Prague. Said John: "He was always worn out. He told me he simply could not get along with Gottwald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Death of an Optimist | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

High-minded José de San Martín, the good soldier who liberated Argentina and Chile (with the aid of Bernardo O'Higgins) from the yoke of Spain, died 97 years ago in poverty and self-imposed exile. Argentines have been trying to make up for it ever since; equestrian statues of him stand in almost every plaza. In 1880 his body was brought back from France, where he had gone in bitter disillusionment over political wrangling, and entombed in Buenos Aires Cathedral. From Spain last week, in two finely worked caskets, came the bones of his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: In a Son's Name | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

With the arrival of the steal yoke and copper coil, component parts of the magnet, actual piecing together of cyclotron fragments already here will start. Members of the department of Physics "will engage in experimental Physics and will have cognizance of the plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pieces for Cyclotron Arrive at Laboratory | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

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