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...considered to be State Department careerists' action: some of them were sabotaging his White House orders to bolster Chiang Kai-shek's Government, and to effect unity between it and the Yenan Communists. Last week, back in Washington after a rest, Pat Hurley decided on a showdown. He wrote a statement. He wrote his resignation. Then he called on Secretary Byrnes...
...control atomic research. They huddled in private, wrote and talked to Congress, cried in the press that something must be done. Some of them, convinced that nationalization of atomic research would be a fatal error, even talked of violating the Army's security regulations to force a showdown...
...into power in 1943. Last week it was Argentina's younger officers, the lieutenants, captains and majors, who had told potent General Avalos that the country was threatened with civil war and the Army with destruction as long as Perón dominated the Government. They demanded a showdown. Avalos agreed. Because Avalos controlled Campo de Mayo (one-third to one-half the Army's effectives), Perón had no choice but to resign as Vice President, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor...
...Holy Land was tight with unholy tension. Jews talked of a showdown, Arabs of a holy war. A division of British air borne troops patrolled streets and country roads. Two more divisions were...
This week, the National League's first-place Cubs and four-games-behind Cardinals begin their final five-game showdown...