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...City. An armed showdown had come between the Communist-cored EAM and its fighting wing ELAS on the one side, and the coalition Government of Socialist Premier George Papandreou with the backing of the British occupation forces, on the other. Ever since the police fired on a forbidden EAM demonstration, called to protest the surrender of its arms (TIME, Dec. 11), open warfare had raged in the ancient capital...
...showdown came at 7 in the morning. German General von Neubronn ordered his SS men to break down the door to old Marshal Petain's bedroom. To the half-dressed Chief of the Vichy State, he issued an ultimatum...
...showdown in the tight race will come next Tuesday, when Company C, which has been trailing the B nine all season, will get a chance to down the leaders. Lowell will take on the NROTC team-mates, Wallace would have lost only one encounter. He struck out 51 of the opposition during the season, and hurled three shutouts...
...Kentucky's "Happy" Chandler. After all, he had made a trip around the world; he knew the U.S. need for more territory. Cried he: "I just want to assure the Senator from Tennessee and the Senator from North Carolina that I will be with them when the showdown comes...
Rommel was unquestionably preparing for such a showdown. Besides the four Panzer divisions already identified, he was reported to have at least three more in reserve. Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, commander of the Second Army, found that some prisoners were veterans from the Russian front. Their units had been moved to Caen within the last month...