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...Russian journey was still verbal. It began in Tiflis, where two professors, S. R. Dzanashia and N. Berdzenishvili, wrote a letter demanding that 10,000 square miles of Turkey (see map), "the seized cradle of our people," be forthwith handed over to the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. The letter was promptly featured in Izvestia, Pravda and Red Star-the Government, Party and Army organs...
...half million new dwellings built by the end of 1946, the President picked Louisville's lanky, jug-eared ex-Mayor Wilson Wyatt as federal housing boss. It was immediately apparent that Wilson Wyatt was going to have trouble. Real-estate boards and construction men all over the country forthwith set up an outraged howl over the President's request for ceilings...
Getulio's War Minister, General Pedro Aurelio GÓes Monteiro, forthwith ordered the Brazilian Army, seasoned by its recent expedition to the Italian front, into the streets with an imposing display of U.S. tanks, half-tracks and machine guns. In no time Vargas was out and Supreme Court Justice José Linhares had taken over the Presidency. A new, largely civilian Cabinet was formed. Two days later, the tanks rolled quietly back to their lairs. No one had been killed...
Furthermore, much of the new peace time equipment would have to be imported, "and it would be a short-sighted policy not to assist." Therefore the "war exchange" tax on all non-Empire imports (85% of them from the U.S.) would be abolished forthwith...
...converted Communist was the managing editor of Communism's U.S. mouthpiece, the Daily Worker. Louis Francis Budenz, 54, ten years after becoming a Communist, announced that he had rejoined the Roman Catholic "faith of his fathers." He forthwith attended the baptism and confirmation of his ex-Unitarian wife and his three children, and was off to Notre Dame to be assistant professor of economics. As a teacher he hopes to "show up Communism in theory and practice." Said Budenz: "Communism, I have found, aims to establish a tyranny over the human spirit; it is in unending conflict with religion...