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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight against the Dutch ended, Soekarno turned relatively conservative, broke with the Communists who at first had supported him. To the press, he issued photographs of himself and his handsome family, like any Western politician; recently, he urged his extremist followers to accept the agreement signed last month at The Hague, which set up the U.S.I, and assigned it a place as equal partner with the former mother country in the new Netherlands-Indonesian Union (TIME, Nov. 14). After a lot of fiery oratory which denounced The Hague deal for making too many concessions to the Dutch, the Republican Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: The Vacuum Called Freedom | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...talk about the prospects of 'Titoism' in China, it is generally assumed that all satellites must be treated alike by the Russians without any degrees of dependence. There have been signs that they are willing to accept from China a much looser form of attachment than is required from the East European satellites. Apart from the vast extent and remoteness of China, the fact that the Chinese Communists have had an army and territory of their own for more than twenty years . . . puts the Chinese in a different category from all other non-Soviet Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Moscow-Peking Axis | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...difference between a democratic and a totalitarian army, give up the puzzle altogether. Quoting Grace again, "The most effective method of establishing a society based on the democratic ideal is to abandon the use of the term as such, and, by practice and precept, lead the German people to accept this ideal...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Collins, president of the Smith Student Council, said, "Neither your awareness of world problems nor your generosity surprised me," but expressed doubts that prudish students would accept "such a Communistic health plan on a coeducational basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Girls Jump at Shower-Sharing | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Jones points out: "Teaching is not indoctrination. To analyze a theory is not to accept it, or to say that it is right, or to turn the teacher into a master and the students into intellectual slaves...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: 'Fortresses for Our Liberties' | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

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