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That is still TIME'S basic job. But year by year, as more and more of you have signed up to share the expense, we have expanded our services again and again: adding the full wire service of the Associated Press - posting more than 200 of our own correspondents all over the world -opening our own editorial offices in London, Moscow, Cairo, Algiers, Stockholm, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Honolulu, New Delhi, Chungking, and nine U.S. cities...
...British Governments, acting in concert, have failed to do the same thing with Fascists of higher rank. One reason for this failure-and for most of the specific mistakes in Italy-is that amateurs at European problems are attempting to deal with chaotic and revolutionary situations. A more basic reason is that Allied officials in Italy have no firmly laid-down and well-understood policy to guide them...
...when Kuh is not ahead of a major European story by hours, if not by days. His recent record: the time, scene and dramatis personae of the Hull-Eden-Molotov Moscow conference, some three weeks before it was announced; Italy's surrender, four days before it happened; the basic Allied conditions for peace in the Far East, eight months before the Cairo conference; the European Advisory Commission's working model of terms for Germany; Russia's Polish border manifestos, one to three days ahead; the Finnish peace terms, now coming true...
...thundering days over Europe, the combined air power of the U.S. and Britain struck a fateful blow at German air power. In the war's heaviest air battle, it inflicted injuries on the enemy's basic sources of aircraft production from which the Luftwaffe may never fully recover...
Hoclcett on Paper. When Hockett got back to Washington he and Fang were assigned to produce a book which would do the job they had done on the pioneering voyage. Spoken Chinese is one of the Army's 23 basic language manuals.* It teaches 750 words and Hockett thinks they can be learned in a month by drilling with the book and listening to the records. The disks give an English word or phrase, then the Chinese equivalent, then are silent so the student can imitate the Chinese, then reiterate the Chinese. The set of 25 records covers most...