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...wild hunt for "Communists," the Government of President Pedro Ramirez has purged the press, literature, labor, social clubs, officialdom. Last week it reached out to clean up art. Police sought out Antonio Berni, recipient of this year's National Prize for Painting, the nation's highest honor to its artists, forbade him to accept the prize because he was a "Communist...
...Britain for a second front in Europe. Unofficial interpretations came thick & fast. The Russians, as in June 1942, had already learned that there was to be no second front this year. The Russians knew that there was going to be a second front and were deceiving the Germans. Russian officialdom, aware of the terrific strain upon the Russian people, was passing the buck from the Kremlin to the Allies...
...German officialdom paid a reluctant but handsome compliment to U.S. tanks last week, and incidentally pried the lid off a hush-hush American development-a gyrostabilizer mount to keep the tank gun aiming steadily. Reporting a display of captured Allied materiel, the Nazi news agency D.N.B. said...
...Rialto, the Tower, Loew's. Others stopped streetcars, pulled off zooters, Mexicans or just dark-complexioned males. On went the mob, ripping pants, beating the young civilians, into the Arcade, the Roxy, the Cameo, the Broadway, the Central and the New Million Dollar theaters. The mood of officialdom (the Shore Patrol, the Military Police, the city police, the sheriff's office) seemed complaisant...
Addis Ababa is a mixture of the old and the new. British officialdom marches jauntily about the Italian-built offices. Masses of unemployed move aimlessly about the streets. Flea-bitten donkeys mourn past, laden with Ethiopian ladies under umbrellas. Occasionally a slicked-up Ethiopian sport in an appropriated, yellow Alfa-Romeo roadster splits the crowds...