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Communist leaders quickly followed through with another lesson. After five hours, they stopped the rioting strikers, only to order them to the railway station for a big welcome of Red Army troops who were "passing through...
...railway strike was broken. Before he went to Capitol Hill to ask, dramatically, for his strikebreaking measures, Harry Truman was reasonably sure that he had won the railway war. But the baffling civil war was not won. There was still John Lewis, glowering on the left flank-or was it the right flank? Joe Curran, clearly on the red left, threatened to tie up merchant shipping on June 15 by calling out the maritime unions...
...other ambassadors presented themselves last week to Argentina's no-longer-isolated Government. Britain's Sir Reginald Leeper docked in the fog to report "great interest [in Britain] in the Argentine market." When Brazil's João Baptista Luzardo arrived at B.A.'s Lacroze railway station, he was met and embraced by Perón himself and cheered by thousands of descamisados (shirtless ones) specially summoned by the Strong Man to make a fraternal greeting to "the representative of Brazil's marmiteiros [dinner-pail carriers]." Luzardo responded by grabbing and kissing Argentine and Brazilian...
...public was quick to denounce the selfish, greedy Railway Brotherhoods who were willing to sacrifice the welfare of a nation to achieve their own petty aims. The press leaped to the attack; scalding front page Philippics placed the curse of God and the fourth estate on the heads of the striking unions. Yet public and press alike have been unwilling to recognize the transcendent issues which the strike has spotlighted-issues whose ramifications extend far beyond the points of contention in the recent strike...
...railway strike endangered the welfare of the whole nation; in a week it would have drained the life blood from our industrial system. The cost of every day of the strike was the lives of thousands of Europeans who are depending on grain which last week lay useless in American freight cars. The strike could not continue and under great pressure the President took drastic action which scared the Railway Brotherhoods back to work. As a strictly temporary stop-gap Mr. Truman's program is barely tolerable, and as a permanent policy it is unthinkable...