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A final plea-and admonition-was intended for Communist ears: "I solemnly state today that all armed forces, if they submit to ... the Government, shall receive the same treatment without discrimination. . . . Unity of military command and integrity of political authority are factors that determine the survival or extinction of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Path of Democracy | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

¶ Michigan's Mackinac Island, the Lake Huron resort where automobiles are barred, was sprayed from stem to stern with DDT. The results were sensational: for the first time in memory, liverymen removed the summertime fly nets from their horses. Residents burned their flytraps in a big public bonfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: War on Insects | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Message to Tokyo. Not even optimists inferred from this new phenomenon that the enemy would quit when he saw his situation was hopeless. It was already hopeless and he did not quit. But many a soldier and sailor was ready to say that, at least to a few Japs, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power v. Statesmanship | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Stunning Resonance. Meanwhile the Labor Party conference at Blackpool ended a week of stunning resonance with a series of verbal thunderclaps. The mood of British labor, echoing Europe's mood of social change, was grimly set by Aneurin Bevan, leftist M.P.: "We want the complete extinction of the Tory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fateful Election | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Probably its chief appeal to the public is an overworked but still excellent plot which first exposes the plan of one member of a connubial team for extinction of the other, and then proceeds to weave an intricate net of suspicion and terror surrounding the discovery by the victim of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 3/23/1945 | See Source »

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