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Some sort of shake-up in Italy's government seemed inevitable as a result of the recent elections in which the Reds held their own, and right-wing parties made substantial gains (TIME, June 11). The big question: Could Christian Democrat Alcide de Gasperi trim his sails to the new winds merely by reshuffling his cabinet, or would his coalition government collapse after 5½ years of rule? Last week Treasury Minister Giuseppe Pella resigned because of opposition from both extreme right and extreme left to his anti-inflationary budget plan. When Pella refused to reconsider, all the other...
...Commanded the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group in Greece from February 1948 to July 1950. Helped the Greeks win what he called "a first-class war against international Communism. Hampered by a bad political situation and a tight budget, he promoted a Greek army training program, a shake-up in the army command, a revamped strategy. Under his direction, hard-hitting, mobile Greek columns finally destroyed a tough Commumist guerrilla army...
...Visiting Committee had secretly resigned after the Yale game and the story leaked out after Christmas; the result was a flurry of newspaper stories implying that local athletic policy was being shaken up "from the top down" and that this meant Harvard football was going professional. Actually, the shake-up was very little more than an attempt to get more active alumni working for the committee...
Then Murphy called 400 administrative heads of the force to a meeting in the barnlike line-up room at Headquarters, and kicked every last one of the city's 336 plainclothesmen back into uniform. It was the most drastic police shake-up in history. But Murphy made it plain that this was only a beginning. "In every instance where corruption exists," he warned, "the commanding officer . . . will be carefully investigated...
...President was also noting that it was Johnson who was getting the bulk of the brickbats from the public. The Veterans of Foreign Wars had already issued a demand for a thorough Defense Department shake-up (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, despite an eloquent presidential appeal, the Marine Corps League had gone right ahead to pass a thundering censure of Louis Johnson (see above) and a demand for his resignation. But it had voted down a similar thrust at Dean Acheson...