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...Communist Party is destroyed we thereby rid ourselves of the one real society in restraint of revolution just as surely as removing toxins from the body would wipe out antitoxins. I know of nothing that promotes a greater satisfaction with the U.S Constitution and its guarantees than listening to the long-range dialecticians of the Kremlin whose thinking is usually conditioned by the amount of static on their short-wave receiving sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...that is a good thing. Since he has been deadlocked with the legislature for two and a half years, with neither able to do much, Texans say the State has forged steadily ahead. When Senator Sheppard died last month, legislators thought they saw a golden opportunity to get rid of the Governor. They unanimously urged him to resign, have his Lieutenant Governor appoint him Senator, and hie himself to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: New Deal for the Lone Star? | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...Labor is ... just as loyal to the cause of America ... as any group in the country." Murray hates Communism with a deep hate. Nevertheless, as nobody can deny, a thin Red thread runs through C. I. 0. It is thin but tough, and Murray has been unable to get rid of it. It has tangled in many a situation, confused many an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Stormy Weather | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...Yugoslavia has only about 600 planes-and all of them were sold or bartered by Britain, France, Germany and Italy at a time when none of those nations could afford to get rid of first-line machines. Yugoslavia has perhaps 100 tanks and only about a score of anti-aircraft batteries. Worst of all, she is facing the crack Army of Europe, an Army of veterans with all the modern tools of war, an Army far bigger than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATRE: Hornets in the Hills | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Like other republics great & small, Liberia had had a Nazi Fifth Column; unlike most others, Liberia had got rid of it, apparently for good and all, in a torrid two-act drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Wicked Flee | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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