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More than a year as an investigator of German cartels gives Bernstein his background for asserting the danger of giving economic encouragement to industry in the defeated country. He is expected to stress the distrust that this would engender in such nations as France...
...Parapets. Against the background of this career, the warning that Andrei Vishinsky gave to the West last week was worth pondering. It meant that Vishinsky's masters, whose people and land put Soviet Russia astride half the world, had no more intention than they had ever had of cooperating with the West, save in brief tactical moments. Did his outburst mean that the fanatics of the Kremlin were condemning not only the peaceful part of the world, but the patient Russian people, exhausted by years of dictatorship and permanent economic depression, to World War III? Only the Kremlin knew...
...tiny but accurate reproduction, which has taken some 15 men and women nearly eight years to build, will have a background painted by Henry Brooks '22, Concord Artist...
...Sherrod, TIME'S senior correspondent in the Pacific, which began: "As I was saying, before I was interrupted by an 8,000-mile air trip. . . ."Sherrod had hurried to New Zealand from his base in China to cover a spot news story and, returning, had resumed the interrupted background piece he had been writing...
...River, which cuts across the historic kingdom of Armenia) began appearing after the first major Turkish massacres in 1894. The picture shows a woman (usually weeping) seated atop classic ruins named after Armenia's lost provinces. The broken crown at her feet symbolizes the shattered kingdom. In the background rises Mount Ararat, where Noah's Ark came to rest...