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...Italy, the Socialist Party split along the line of logical cleavage (see below...
...Anti-Congress," held in the magnificent, 17th Century Palazzo Barberini (former residence of U.S. Ambassador Alexander C. Kirk). The most important catch of the Nenni Socialists was Novelist Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine), who has long opposed fusion with the Communists, but apparently could not bring him,self to split with his old party. Saragat succinctly summed up his own reasons for splitting: "I would infinitely prefer to side with our Socialist Comrade Attlee than with Comrade Tito." Said Nenni: "What has happened is an episode in the war of the classes, which is approaching a vaster battle, which will...
Something for Fishermen. To get it, most of them had joined the fingerling Fishermen's and Fish Handlers' Union. Three months ago the union demanded that the "lay" (split) of each voyage's net profit (i.e. net after deductions for various operating costs) be changed from the traditional 50-50 lay to 60% for crewmen, 40 for owners. Also demanded: a redivision of operating costs...
Before the war they split. Cortot, a collaborationist, became Vichy's secretary for music. Casals, a fiery Spanish Loyalist, hid out in France during the war, performed at Loyalist benefits. Now 70, he has announced that he will never play publicly again until Spain is liberated from Franco. Jacques Thibaud, less politically minded than either, gave concerts in Vichyfrance, but also performed clandestinely in Switzerland and Spain. In France, aging Jacques Thibaud is regarded with somewhat the same mixture of admiration and affection that U.S. audiences feel for Thibaud's close friend, Fritz Kreisler...
...nation's biggest maritime union-and one of those most diligently cultivated by Communists-split wide open last week. The man who split it open was none other than Joe Curran, its blustering builder and longtime (nine years) boss...