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...Government became a matter of political intrigue. Cabled New York Timesman Raymond Daniell: "General Sikorski's death . . . has precipitated a political feud that might have lain dormant until the Polish Government had returned home after the Allied victory. It is the old struggle between the Left and Right, latent in the political alignments of almost all refugee Governments here...
...product of a revolution; 20 years of existence have not yet fully stabilized it. The westernization program of Kamâl Atatürk lifted it out of a medieval slough, but economically and financially it is still far from healthy, and wartime difficulties have stimulated latent inflation...
...Children Drink. 'The cases fell into five main classes: 1) children who drank to escape an unbearable situation; 2) children whose drinking was an expression of their attitude toward others, e.g., a boy drinking to spite his drunken father; 3) "latent or overt homosexuals"; 4) psychopathic personalities; 5) psychotics. Examples...
...Friedrich" spoke in French. Like other Goebbels men-who broadcast from Rome-he sought to stir latent anticlericalism among Latin peoples. The Nazis, fearful of the alignment of Vatican diplomacy on the United Nations side, were countering in their customarily heavy-handed...
...Gravest Danger. Only the highest Allied leaders knew what operations are in prospect in the next phase of World War II. Churchill spoke of them with the confidence of a man who knows of plans well laid. But he recognized clearly one latent, mortal danger to these plans-the basic strategy of the enemy's defense against them. Said...