Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Background for War is assigned to various departments, depending on the accent of the report that week. Frequently this department ties in directly with stories we are reporting in TIME'S regular sections. Thus, in this issue, our cover story on Admiral Radford, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, naturally has a great deal to say about U.S. strategy and Formosa. At other times, Background for War may not be immediate news, but the information it contains, we hope, will help you understand today's news better...
...figures show that the average TIME subscriber has been reading TIME for nine years-so many of you will probably remember the original Background for War, 1939. This was a series TIME published on the eve of World War II, reviewing history from World War I to the invasion of Poland. Shortly after the blitzkrieg, we collected these articles into a booklet which you can still find in the homes of thousands of TIME readers. They and their friends bought more than four-and-a-half million copies at the newsstands-the greatest response to any single-issue publication that...
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...MacArthur and sees eye-to-eye with him on most points of Pacific strategy, including the question of America's Pacific frontier. In their view, the frontier is a barrier from the foggy, smoking Aleutians on the north to the Philippines. Part of this line is Formosa (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR), the key to the Western Pacific. MacArthur, Radford and most Navy men believe that Formosa can and must be denied to the enemy, and therefore cheered President Truman's order to defend it. If Formosa is not held, the U.S. positions in Japan and the Philippines will...
...white, there was testimony from the artist that the subject was one after his own color-hungry heart. Wrote Van Gogh in one of his last letters: "I have just painted that red and green vehicle in the courtyard of the inn ... a simple foreground of grey gravel, a background very very simple too, pink and yellow walls, with windows with green shutters and a patch of blue sky. The two carriages very brightly colored, green and red, the wheels -yellow, black, blue and orange...