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...Schenectady, General Electric's home plant lay idle. There most of the 18,000 strikers were conservative people, somewhat bewildered by what the Communist-tinged leadership of the C.I.O. United Electrical Workers had done. A common complaint echoed through the city: "We didn't know we were voting for a strike when we voted for a $2 raise...
...Security Council meets in Church House just behind Westminster Abbey. There the test came last week when Britain's Ernie Bevin rose ponderously from his se.at near Vishinsky. Bevin, looking straight ahead, said: "I think it would be a great mistake if any country could not have its complaint heard." Everyone in the room snapped to attention. Vishinsky was a picture of pallid, intense concern. Bevin warmed up throatily on Greece (which Russia had brought up to counteract talk about Iran). Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, leaned forward and tried in vain to calm...
Soviet authorities looked them over, ordered four taken down. Russian reasoning: a picture showing hungry children stretching out empty dishes might be interpreted as "a complaint...
While U.S. military authorities investigated the complaint, other U.S. officers and civilians continued their task of teaching Germans to like and respect democracy...
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the stormy petrel of polio, had a new complaint. She swooped with angry cries on the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The Foundation, she thinks, falsely claims (in the literature announcing the 1944-45 March of Dimes) that it supports her work...