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...Regent heaved an episcopal sigh of relief. His month-long quest for a Premier to succeed conservative Admiral Petros Voulgaris was over. In his Athens Palace last week black-bearded, black-robed Archbishop Damaskinos gladly divested himself of his stopgap function as Premier and swore in a new man: slightly-left-of-center Panayotis Kanellopoulos, leader of the National Unionist Party...
...other nations, while willing to sign the F.A.O. constitution, were unable to come to a clear agreement on F.A.O.'s rightful function. Should it have power to act in streamlining the world's distribution of food? Or should it be solely an advisory body...
Japanese troops, having played out their last forlorn role, were about to retire to concentration camps. Their commander, General Yasuji Okamura, for many years overlord of all North China, brooded in the gloomy rooms of the Foreign Office in Nanking; his last function is that of "chief liaison officer" between his own stranded army and Chinese headquarters. There were 1,100,000 Japanese soldiers below the Great Wall in China when the war ended-far more than U.S. estimates before V-J day. The last 400,000 troops, who at Chungking's direction have policed railroads and held approaches...
...world continues free of serious epidemics. The fact is fortunate. The old League of Nations' Health Organization, now reduced to a staff of eleven, is still in Geneva putting out its Bulletin. But with so few men, it is no longer able to carry out its most valuable function: trouble-shooting in any nation where a plague strikes...
...revolution by decree. Neither the revolution nor the revolutionary government had yet been subject to the test of direct, secret elections. Last week there were elections of a sort in Czechoslovakia. But they had been arranged by the only four parties permitted to function. They were conducted at party meetings. The vote was by public acclamation; the purpose was to choose electors who in turn would choose members of a Provisional Parliament. The seats in this Parliament had already been allotted by the controlling parties...