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...apparently the Turks had been expecting the same thing. A new party, strategically placed to split any opposition that might develop, was organizing under the leadership of balding, bespectacled, former Premier Jelal Mahmet Bayar. The semi-official newspaper Ulus gave Bayar a significant pat on the back. Said Ulus: "There is no possibility of feeling anything but happiness to have in the opposition a man of such qualifications...
Sweet Dream. In Monessen, Pa., Sergeant Eddie Hughes's foxhole fantasy became a fact: a banana split consisting of two quarts of ice cream, one quart of fruit salad, ten bananas and proportionate applications of marshmallow, whipped cream, chocolate, pineapple and cherries...
...Jews, too, needed a unifying hand. They were split up in some 20 factions, and a struggle for leadership was developing inside the Jewish Agency Executive. One group, headed by the Hagana underground, championed armed defiance of the anti-immigration rules. They held that Jewish chances were already lost, believed that only the martyrdom of thousands would win the world sympathy they needed...
...still had her platonic love for Gandhi-but at a distance. Months ago she fell in love with another Gandhi disciple, handsome, well-built Prithvi Singh, 55. Gandhi, who swears his converts to celibacy, offered to make an exception. But Prithvi Singh refused to marry Miraben. Soon afterwards he split with Gandhi, became a Communist and married another girl. Then Miraben wearied of the jealousies and squabbles in Gandhi's ashram (place of retreat) at Sevagram. She moved to the Himalaya foothills and founded anashram...
...Rumania, as in other countries, the Opposition was often split, inside and outside the Cabinet. But the Opposition itself was unmistakable. Both National Liberal leader Constantin Dinu Bratianu and Peasant Party chief Juliu Maniu flatly advocated overthrow of the Moscow-backed regime of Premier Peter Groza. Mostly the Opposition program was negatively antiCommunist, but last week Maniu made a positive point : let the U.S. and Britain help the Opposition by recognizing a reconstructed Rumanian Government...