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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were always those who hoped to be able to end the war by negotiated peace." Japan had indeed sought persistently to end the "China incident" by negotiations with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, or somebody. The Generalissimo, even in direst straits, refused to listen; the other somebodies were of no avail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: They Make Mischief | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

Tomorrow when I am turned to dust, of what avail the tears of repentance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Five Men in a Jeep | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Joan Crawford is back on the screen, but to no avail. She cries, she laughs, she loves, she hates, but she fails to make "Mildred Pierce" more than an over-emotional whodunit with a psychological mother-daughter angle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/13/1945 | See Source »

...minutiae while Rome burned. . . . [He] is hopelessly inadequate to give the people intellectual and spiritual leadership. And unless our people have such leadership, all the battleships, all the planes, armies and atomic bombs and all the words in the treaties of peace soon to be written will not avail us against a future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: COME DOWN, PROFESSOR | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Partly to make more supplies avail able for relief, but also because the meat-hungry U.S. had griped so long about Canadian abundance, Canada reimposed meat rationing* this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: For the Neighbors | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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