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More recently German agents in Buenos Aires have been sifting each issue of TIME Air Express and then cabling 2,000 words from it to Berlin for the private information of the Nazi chiefs. But beginning this week all the plain, German people passing through Sweden will be able to read TIME soon after you read it here...
There was trouble between Moscow and London this week. A row broke into the open, ostensibly over the shape and complexion of postwar Poland. But the sound of the brawling stirred the old ghosts which plain people everywhere had hoped were laid for good & all at Teheran...
While the ruling classes walk toward the exit, plain Bulgarians are beginning to run. At the country's two political extremes stand: 1) pro-Nazi army commanders, intelligentsia, court figures around Prince Cyril, one of the three regents and brother of the late King Boris; 2) the Communist-led underground. Between stands a potential peacemaker: former Premier Nicholas Mushanoff, leader of the only legal opposition, the Democratic Party...
...express the "voice of Britain" at a by-election last fortnight. Said London's Conservative Times, just before the voting: "The opinion is freely expressed that Skipton electors will give the Government candidate such a majority that will, in Mr. Churchill's own words, 'make it plain to the whole world that Skipton stands behind the National Government...
Through the Wringer. Although the Court split sharply on how it had arrived at where it was, the meaning of its new position was plain. The decision gave FPC a free hand to set utility rates on any basis it wishes. The only guidepost is whether the rates are "just and reasonable." But the burden of proof is on the utilities...