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Sirs: With the utmost repugnance I read the letter quoted by Major William G. Sears in your April 2 issue. . . . The comparison made by the Major between the situation under which the Chrysler tank drivers threatened to strike and the conditions under which tanks are driven by men in battle is not only malicious, but shows a disregard of the very rights and principles we are fighting for. To insinuate that workers should tolerate any condition where they work because our men are going through worse is nothing short of mean, and presupposes that total war is the normal state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...churches make a dent on San Francisco, it will be because they have studied the problems of peace with unaccustomed realism. Last week John Foster Dulles, spokesman for the Protestant crusaders, summed up their view: "This time it is of the utmost importance that we be realistic. We must see the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for what they are-a good start. . . . San Francisco must be looked to not as a stopping point but as a starting point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peacemakers, Take Notice | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...other major problem of his life - his religious beliefs. To be a rebel in Victorian England required unusual boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed. At best, he would find release from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Allies are resolved that Germany shall be totally disarmed; that Naziism and militarism shall be destroyed; that war criminals shall be tried justly and quickly punished; that all German industries capable of military production shall be eliminated or controlled; and that Germany shall make compensation in kind to the utmost of her ability for damage to Allied nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: None Against | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Poland. "The Russian claim . . . has always been unchanged for the Curzon Line in the east, and the Russian offer has always been that ample compensation should be gained for Poland at the expense of Germany in the north and west. ... I assert with the utmost conviction the broad justice of the policy upon which, for the first time, all the three great Allies have now taken their stand. ... A most sovereign declaration has been made by Marshal Stalin and the Soviet Union that the sovereign independence of Poland is to be maintained, and this decision is now joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: None Against | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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