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Grab & Run. An ardently anti-Communist American lawyer in Shanghai remarked to me the other night: "The Gov ernment is not a government. It is a dirty, venal lot of officials trying to get what they can while the getting is good. They have lost their confidence...
...battle sounds so recently stilled in Europe and Asia re-echoed last week in Venezuela. Lend-Leased U.S. planes and armored cars were among the weapons. When the shooting eased off, rebels were in control and Venezuela had a new Gov ernment, advertised as leftist and prodemocratic...
...house cleaning certain to come early in the occupation will scarcely enhance the Emperor's "divinity." Under the Potsdam declaration, which includes the purging of militarism from Japan, MacArthur has the right to toss out any member of the Emperor's new gov ernment (see FOREIGN NEWS), and many of them will have...
During the Nazi occupation, Claude traveled around France, lecturing, at his own expense, on the benefits of National Socialism. He demanded that Vichy take stronger measures against resisters. The testimony showed that he had become embittered against the-prewar French Gov ernment because it preferred the German nitrogen process to his own, that he was a close friend of Royalist Leader Charles Maurras. After the Allied landing in North Africa, he tried to commit suicide by swallowing a heavy dose of strychnine...
...Kerr and Harriman. The Commissar insisted that the agreement required just a few changes in the Government, all subject to veto by the present Warsaw Poles. The U.S. and British Ambassadors would have none of this. They insisted on a complete over haul, keeping elements of the present Gov ernment as a nucleus but also including Poland's non-Communist parties on an equal basis. From these extremes, the negotiators labored toward compromise...