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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definitely Mr. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain, who paved the way for the freedom of Asian countries and thereby brought the Western and Eastern civilizations into closer association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

High & Dry. Last week New York, and many of the 80 surrounding towns which suck like clustering leeches on its water lines, were getting perilously close to that unimaginable point at which water would no longer run from millions of kitchen faucets. Its dams stood high and dry above great barren expanses of frozen mud; only 33.4% of the city's 253 billion gallons of stored water was left and the supply was being relentlessly lowered at a rate of some 800 million gallons every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: How Dry I Am | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Moscow-Peking Axis | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Speaking under the auspices of the Free Enterprise Society. Kaltenborn wrote off the loss of China as "inevitable" because of widespread corruption in the Chinese army. He remarked that China is too vast and unorganized to be of great use to Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kaltenborn Minimizes Situation in China, Will Discuss Radio Tonight at Law Forum | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

Bill Robinson, the celebrated "Bojangles," is, of course, a superb soft shoe dancer. What comes through in this movie is not only his great talent, but his obvious enjoyment in playing his part. This same enjoyment is also found in Lena Horne and Fats Waller, and that is what raises them from the scores of run-of-the-mill actors in the film...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

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