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...British officers and a Jewish civilian were killed. (In London a bomb was found in the Colonial Office; its crude timing device failed to explode it.) Irgun announced that it would take ten British lives for each of its "soldiers" hanged. Palestine was taut. The Army's showdown with the terror gangs seemed to be at hand...
...policy might force a showdown; Russia could conceivably withdraw from U.N. But for all practical purposes Russia has never accepted the fundamental theory of U.N. She has declined to join any of U.N.'s most important specialized agencies (e.g., UNESCO, the World Bank, Refugee, Labor, Food and Agricultural Organizations). She has used U.N. as a debating society, and manipulated her veto power to play power politics...
...Nothing could be more damaging to Communist prestige than the evidence of this split, which they are naturally going to seek to camouflage. But if the American initiative in Greece is to be the forerunner of other equally vigorous moves, if some kind of a showdown is really coming, then the cleavage in the Communist Party will be total and avowed. The largest party in France will say goodbye to its 'respectability' and Maurice Thorez will be politically executed without mercy by his own party...
...bitter discontent arising from high living costs. The delicacy arose from an inhibition familiar to all Communist leaders: Frachon must not let his workers' drive for higher wages disrupt Russia's worldwide grand strategy. For example, anything approaching a Communist-led general strike in France would force a premature showdown in the French coalition government and stiffen the West's resistance against Russian demands at next month's Moscow Foreign Ministers Conference...
...nearly two years, Socialist Boss Pietro Nenni had carried on his policy of collaboration with the Communists. Eventually it must lead to complete fusion, but Nenni first needed a showdown with the anti-Communist elements in his party. As the Congress opened last week, Communist observer Umberto Terracini put it this way: "We have come here as to the house of a brother in need who is entering the crisis of a most grave sickness and who must make an irrevocable decision...