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...integrity in the Italian government tried to suppress the Montesi case, not because they were themselves enveloped in its murky mists but because a whole governing society regarded itself, and its competence to govern, involved in the revelations of privileges, corruption and injustice. The government dared not abandon investigation of the case, but was unwilling to pursue it, because of the vast aid and comfort it was giving to the Communists...
...together would not make one "Model Worker." But Mao was in a serious mood. ("He would make an outstanding labor negotiator," said Earn-shaw.) Blandly, he laid on the line his terms for coexistence. He wanted Attlee to ask the U.S. to 1) withdraw the U.S. Seventh Fleet and abandon its support of Chiang; 2) cease arming Japan; 3) cease arming Germany...
Died. James A. (for Aloysius) Johnston, 79, longtime (1934-48) warden of Alcatraz prison; of a liver infection; in San Francisco. Scholarly Penologist Johnston tamed riotous San Quentin during his 1913-25 tenure, had to abandon "reconstructive" penology when he took over in 1934 as first warden of Alcatraz, which had been deliberately established as a fortress to hold the meanest mobsters in gangdom (Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly...
Power Pattern. To both sides it made such good sense that they agreed to interconnect the systems at 19 different points. Each would help the other at periods of peak loads, thus lessening breakdowns and power shortages. The cooperatives would abandon plans for 292 miles of lines, use the $3,000,000 saved to increase capacity of the new plant at Ford. With peace in sight, the Government released the remaining $13,299,000 of its loan to the cooperatives so that they could further expand the Ford plant and complete their transmission system...
THERE are three possible solutions for the problem of Formosa. The first is to abandon it to Communist conquest. Britain has always been ready to do this, but it is unlikely that America can now be persuaded to do so. There are good strategic reasons for keeping the island in friendly hands, and no one has suggested an alternative refuge for Chiang and his followers. The second course is to make the island a ward of the United Nations. This cannot be regarded as a practical proposition...