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...reason for the complexity lies in the empire's swift, turbulent, helter-skelter growth. Founder Lever (Cofounder and brother James Darcy Lever reared early) couldn't resist buying up plants, setting up subsidiaries wherever he went (he circled the earth five times...
Last week, in the cool hills of Simla, the man who could make or break the British plan for an independent Indian government spoke 2,500 cautious words. Mohamed Ali Jinnah criticized the plan, but notably refrained from calling on his Moslem followers to resist...
...nations of the U.N. General Assembly. "We must take the offensive for peace," he added. "There is no iron curtain that the aggregate sentiments of mankind cannot penetrate." In this speech, and in his attitude at Paris, Byrnes ably and clearly demonstrated the Western Powers' determination to resist Russian expansionism. If one world was not possible, the West was reluctantly ready to go ahead with the organization of the areas outside the Russian orbit. One fact about the two-world solution would not be lost on Moscow: the Western half was still incomparably the stronger...
...know what facsimile is any more than I knew what radio was 20 years ago, but we are going to find out. . . . We can't resist these advances...
...Senate got an ultimatum. It had dawdled so long over the British loan (TIME, May 6) that one day last week Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley lurched angrily from his front-row seat and, with ill-concealed irritation, served notice that he would resist "with all the powers at my command" any attempt to sidetrack the loan bill for anything else, not even the draft law, which is due to expire...