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...influential, bull-necked Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor: "The steps which have been taken in Greece are not the decisions of Mr. Churchill. They are the decisions of the Cabinet.. .. Russia undertook the main problem in Rumania. We undertook the main problem in Greece. . . . The British Government cannot abandon its position in the Mediterranean." Disregarding 20 trade-union resolutions denouncing Churchill outright, the conference passed a new one backing the Prime Minister but neatly shifting from Labor shoulders any public odium the Government might incur...
...middleweight final, between French Sailor Marcel Cerdan and Technical Sergeant Ralph Burnley of Philadelphia, a Negro, stole last week's" show. Both were pros before they went into the service. The Negro, who is crew chief of a P-51 fighter group, ploughed into the Frenchman with abandon, took Round One. Cerdan's right scored three skull-jarring hits in Round Two, floored the Philadelphian three times for a count of nine. Cerdan took the title on a technical K.O. at the bell...
...Where are we?" Telker asked, and an old Filipino answered, "Mindanao." He had inadvertently invaded the largest island in the southern Philippines, still exclusively and thickly Jap-held. Telker suggested to his party that they abandon the beachhead forthwith. They agreed...
Hopeful news leaked out of tight-sealed Paraguay last week. A courageous manifesto signed by 3,000 citizens requested President Higinio Morínigo to abandon his dictatorship, call popular elections so that Paraguay might align herself with the rest of the continent in the democratic way of life. First in the list of signers was revered Dr. Juan Boggino, poet, physiologist and Dean of the University of Asuncion. Morínigo answered the appeal with a wave of arrests and deportations of democratic elements. But he did not dare touch Dr. Boggino, for fear of nationwide resentment...
Pouring forth their feminine imaginations with wild abandon, students at Smith College are currently engaged in free-for-all discussion on the subject of the dormitory of tomorrow...