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I wish to tell you that I have not yet met the Filipino who has the exaggerated patriotism of desiring a separation now. It will be finding ruby in the swamp if you can find 5 out of every 100 Filipinos who favor independence. And if 5% of a nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Ou est Gamelin? asked Frenchmen last week on the boulevards of Paris and in the wineshops of Auvergne as under a new leader French Armies regrouped themselves along the Somme. Maurice Gustave Gamelin, once acknowledged "the world's foremost soldier," had seen his theories of stand-and-take-it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Where Is Gamelin? | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Thinking of the sorrows he had already borne-following first his father's coffin (1934) and the next year his young wife's -other nations wondered what his reward for being a model modern monarch would be-whether Belgium would be saved from the Nazi juggernaut or go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leopold Goes to War | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

On the hunt, along the "woodless prairies" beyond the Arkansas River, their venison often spoiled for lack of fuel to cook it. Indian police whipped the noisy and the neck-craners into discipline when game was near. They were skillful shots; one bullet or one arrow per bison was usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indians, Then & Now | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Sweden's Sphere. One obvious purpose of Herr Ribbentrop's speech was to serve notice on neutrals that any suspicious traffic with Great Britain will subject them to the threat of extinction. In passing, Power Politician Ribbentrop gave Sweden a nice pat on the head. "The Swedish Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Reactions to Ribbentrop | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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