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...From 1946 to 1950, France had a Communist, Frederic Joliot-Curie, at the head of the atomic research program.) France's non-Communist daily, Combat, even objected to the scheduling of the execution to avoid the Jewish Sabbath. Combat called this "sadistic puritanism." In Paris, a mob tried to storm the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in the Place de la Concorde; a man was shot and a thousand rioters arrested. There were echoes of the violent hate-America drive from Australia's docksides to Dublin's streets...
...machine guns above the heads of the marchers. Six mobile antiaircraft trucks twisted through the crowd, nose to tail, like a team of prodding sheep dogs, to press the movement past and on to other places. But at Leipziger and Friedrich Strasse, where the chief government buildings stood, the mob's suppressed feelings broke out. Anger scudded in like a rain cloud. "Freedom!" they chanted. "Freedom!" "We demand the overthrow of the government." "We want the overthrow of Ulbricht...
...plant milled around the plant shouting slogans, had to be dispersed with rubber truncheons and fire hoses. Twelve thousand workers of the Karl Liebknecht heavy machinery plant, marching on the city, were confronted by Soviet troopers who fired over their heads and by Volkspolizei who fired directly into the mob. Five fell dead. Before they gave up, the strikers released 20 political prisoners from the jail, wrecked Red trade union headquarters...
...Burned by a rioting Perónista mob...
Nevertheless, Rhee seemed to realize that the anti-Americanism might get out of hand. At week's end he called off the mob. One directive, sent out by his Education Ministry, revealed how closely the government controlled the riots. It read: ". . . Students will not demonstrate against the cease-fire until and unless there are further instructions from the ministry." The violence ceased, but the government hinted it might start again. Meanwhile, the tension and suspicion remained...