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The "six newly born mice, with eyes still closed and nice and pink" might refer to two sets of three blind mice: Great Britain, France and the U. S. and Germany, Italy and Russia, who in Asiatic eyes are newly born countries, blind to realities staring them in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, still staring hard, Mrs. Mary Klein appeared in Paterson with her daughter, Juliet. She commandeered a detective, went looking for Leo Pigola. Finally she found him, hawking fruit from a truck. She had him arrested, taken to court. There she charged him with desertion, told the judge that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Innocent Fruiterer | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Like Italy too, Spain wants more as the chances of getting more increase. Until last spring she wanted only to be left alone. Then, as Italy began screaming about her "Mediterranean shackles," Spain awoke to the fact that the two-century-old British possession of Gibraltar was a national disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Verge of Battle | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Chairman Barkley subsided, turned away, waiting for the applause to stop. There was no applause. The bulbous Senator turned back, carefully read off the President's words. At this point all hell was supposed to break loose. But most of the delegates stood pat in their places, staring anxiously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Alben Barkley's dull roar died away. In its stead, for a long moment during the Democratic Convention last week, there was only the manifold murmur of the crowd in the Chicago Stadium. The sweating, shuffling, staring thousands had just heard Franklin Roosevelt's inconclusive message that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Voice of the Convention | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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