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Allied military and Italian police rounded up one gang. It included seven Foreign Legion deserters, one deserter from the U.S. Army, one Italian and five Spanish civilians. But still the brigandage went on, especially along the road from Rome to Naples...
Allied and Italian officials breathed more freely last week. But with plenty more deserters from the Allies' polyglot armies in Italy running around loose, they were not looking forward to a peaceful winter. Goggle-eyed Romans, reading the story of the Lane gang, wondered how much their homegrown desperadoes were learning from the American visitors...
...named Abraham Stern. When not philosophizing, young Stern wrote poetry, brooded on the unhappy lot of his people. The British Government's White Paper (1939), limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine, convinced Philosopher Stern that the Jews must force concessions from the British at rifle point. He recruited a gang of young Jews from Yemen and ganovim from the ghettos of Poland and Lithuania. They were pledged to "sell their lives dearly." British censorship blanketed many of their achievements. But enough stories of arson, murder and destruction seeped through to show that the Stern gang had succeeded in combining effective...
...trust us," scoffed the diplomats, "to keep our necks pulled in." For a Pan-American conference with Argentina on the agenda would be under U.S. pressure to gang up on Argentina. If Argentina yielded ground, the State Department might forget the help it had received from the other Latin American countries. But Argentina would not forget-or forgive...
Last week, the Democrats contributed a cartoon showing Governor Dewey speaking from a platform that concealed a fatuous-looking cellar gang. Included in the gang was Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the news-slanting Chicago Tribune, and cousin of Daily News Publisher Joe Patterson. Captain Patterson forthwith called off the Battle Page. His reasons: below-the-belt hitting, fear of libel...