A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 25, 1946

When TIME's International and Foreign News editor, Max Ways, returned to his post recently after a month's inspection of Europe (the Nürnberg Trials, Paris Peace Conference, Saxony elections, Berlin's Russian zone, etc.), he made his usual mental note to stay home for awhile. His log showed that in the last five years he had covered some 200,000 miles, mostly overseas, by air alone.

The last time Ways saw Europe he was busy inspecting U.S. economic intelligence outposts from Naples to Chungking. That was in 1944, when Ways was chief of the U.S. Foreign Economics Administration's Enemy Branch, which tried to keep track...

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