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...Reader Gifford is right as a Ribstone pippin on the fact, may be a little off on the timing. Another story: lion & unicorn were torn down by Colonial soldiers after the British evacuated Boston March 17, 1776. To TIME's reporter, a backward look for discounting the ardor of his Revolutionary forbears...
Childs also disclosed-"although it may have been no more than a coincidence"-that shipments of thorium to the U.S. from the state of Travancore, in southern India, had been stopped. Travancore, one of India's least backward states, used to supply three-fourths of the world's thorium (for gaslight mantles, radio tubes, carbon terminals, luminous watch dials...
...still a question whether Brazil's big farmers would be willing to follow Nelson Rockefeller's gleam. And would Brazilian capitalists be attracted by anything but exorbitant profits? Still, a little success would go a long way in big, backward Brazil. And such a commercially helpful hand would be a potent implement to U.S. foreign policy...
...debit side," Salisbury said Russia had suffered great loss of life and damage to her country during the war, her technology was backward, and the people were "exhausted." All in all, he said, Russia fears war, and presumably-would direct her foreign policy toward preservation of peace...
...Looking backward, the most important event of the year, between the United Nations Assembly meeting at London and its second sitting this week in New York, was the clarification of U.S. foreign policy. A year ago neither the friends nor the antagonists of the U.S. had a clear idea of where the U.S. stood. Today the world sees the U.S. as a leading champion among the great powers of a strong United Nations and as an active participant in the discussion of every international issue, from Stettin around to Harbin...