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Washington has been less forthright. The last Tokyo Cabinet shake-up brought into office a group of conservatives influenced by such old friends of the Emperor as Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma. Is a split developing between the businessmen and nobles, on the one hand, and the Armyj chiefs, on the other? If so, the split is bound to weaken Japan's war effort. Washington does not want to heal the breach by an overt propaganda attack on the Emperor...
Perhaps, as some Allied observers hoped, the senescent figure of Baron Suzuki was a front for a negotiated peace. "The Jap Cabinet shake-up," cracked one, "is really a plea for mercy...
While Rome seethed, the Government decreed a shake-up of the police, a speedup of the purge. The Communists did a triple political somersault: 1) they announced that the slain demonstrator was not a Communist: 2) most of the Communists at the Colosseum, it was said, were not Party members, but belonged to the Movimento Communista (Communist Movement*); 3) they ordered Unità's Editor Spano to confess that he had acted not as a Party man but as an "individual...
...Bolsheviks in Russia's Government to survive the Great Purge. A war comrade of Stalin's from the days of the civil War, few men had been so closely associated with the Soviet leader. Was the change an individual question, or did it portend a shake-up in the Soviet Government? As a result of the war, the Red Army could become a much greater political power in the Soviet state. As a Defense Commissar, had Voroshilov aspired too far? Stalin, a close student of Machiavelli, dislikes ambition in his official family. Or did Russia need a younger...
...General de Gaulle's struggle to restore order in France, this little F.F.I, shake-up was symptomatic. It meant that the Paris Maquis, like F.F.I, units elsewhere, were deprived of their police duties. It was a blow to the leftist dream of a People's Army (more than a third of the F.F.I., some 100,000 men, are being absorbed by the French Army...