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They were Poles, Austrians, Czechs, Belgians, Rumanians, Frenchmen, Italians, Swiss and Russians who had sailed from France last January, bound for Brazil. Because most of them were what the Nazis call Jews, Nazi Europe wanted no more of them. Still, they were luckier than others. They had had the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Whited Sepulcher | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Half the Indians in Alaska are reasonably good Episcopalians now, but when Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe was sent out to convert them the territory was still just "Seward's Icebox" and the natives were more impressed by their totem poles than by the cross.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Icebox Bishop | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

But war agencies have superseded the advertising men. For many months U.S.citizens have been taking daily doses of strong medicine from Washington: warnings, threats, appeals, horror stories, stern advice devised to wake a man up to the danger of World War II, to arouse his patriotism, make him work longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR EFFORT: Overdose | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

In what and how they write and think these two authors are poles apart. Chamberlin's thinking brings him out at an isolationist position which strangely underestimates the crushing military, economic and political power of Naziism. Max Lerner is a left-handed interventionist because he sees Naziism as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Downfall | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

>In London the Polish Government-in-Exile reported that 112,000 Poles have been hanged or shot by Nazi death squads.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Butchers' Butcher | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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