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...answer goes right to the heart of the Newsmagazine Idea-for the basic promise we have made you and every other TIME subscriber is not that we will get you the news first, but rather that we will sift through the torrent of news that sweeps past you every day-leave out everything you can afford to skip-and then tell you all the really significant news of the week just as briefly, clearly, memorably and understandingly as we know...
London reported preliminary U.S.-British-Russian agreement on a basic plan for postwar Germany. Its prime elements: 1) no civil rule for a long time to come; 2) military rule by the British and U.S. in territory occupied by their forces; 3) military rule by the Russians in territory occupied by the Red Army...
Less comforting, however, was the formal statement issued by Ch'en Li-fu to the press: "The Chinese provisional constitution provides that the Three People's Principles shall be the basic educational principles of the Republic of China; just as democracy is the basic principle of America's education and should not be contravened. Any Chinese who violates the Three People's Principles violates common interests in the war of defense, students being no exception...
...China the state must, in the postwar period, concentrate its total efforts to develop basic industries . . . but must leave light industries in the hands of private citizens...
...Keynes operating in the world of high theory, always able to give three solutions to any problem; Catto insisting that only one could be chosen. When the time came for Britain to propose a plan for the stabilization of postwar currencies (TIME, April 5, 1943), Lord Keynes drew the basic document. But Catto was there at his elbow with advice on the practical details...