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From Munich to Moscow. Once the Nazi pressure is removed from the center, energy will radiate from the East and the West-from Moscow and from Washington. Czechoslovakia's response may commit the Continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Art of Survival | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Puzzling feature: if the Japs knew Mitscher's force was coming, why did they lose 87 planes on the ground? Possible explanation: when Japs become confused, or when something goes wrong with their plans, everything goes haywire. Sometimes in their stress they commit suicide because they can think of nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Vindicating the Carrier | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Willkie, Harold Stassen, John Bricker, Thomas Dewey, Douglas MacArthur, Robert Taft-had caught hold of the people's imagination. This might be remedied in June, by the manner of the nomination, and of the nominee. But meanwhile the doubts were there, and the people unsure and unwilling to commit themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahout | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Confronted with these astounding claims, bemused U.S. doctors last week would not commit themselves because, to them, much Russian research seems intuitive rather than logical-the average Russian scientist often prefers to work things out in his head without resort to guinea pigs. U.S. doctors reluctantly admit that he often comes out with the right answer, but they want to be shown. U.S. research on ACS has already begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sensational Serum | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...polemic asserting that international bankers and utilities magnates had engineered Willkie's 1940 nomination. The faded sunflower, 1936 Nominee Alf Landon, pictured for freshmen G.O.P. Congressmen his own ideal candidate, who could not possibly have been confused with Wendell Willkie. The general anti-Willkie strategy: don't commit now, wait until convention time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: To the People | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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