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...prospective Prime Minister, the Labor Party picked amiable, colorless Clement Attlee, since a choice between strong-arm trade unionist Ernest Bevin and smart-policy exponent Herbert Morrison might split the Party. Ernest Bevin was tipped as prospective Foreign Secretary. Promptly he expounded Labor's foreign policy...
...eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand total of 4,819 points for the go 60-point blocks. To both it seemed like a hard way to earn $6,000 and $4,000, their 60-40 split of the total gate receipts (after expenses...
Typical of the diversion of opinion which characterized the forum was the discussion of the Polish underground, which Professor Rasziuski denied was split into two factions, as Dr. Zlatowski claimed...
TIME [April 30] gave a complete report on German atrocities. The account of the Erla inhumanities, however, was in error in its reference to acetate. For instance, TIME said "guards unlocked the two doors and hurled in acetate, dousing the tinder-dry buildings" and . . . "in one split second the acetate ignited and burst into a roaring inferno...
Washington has been less forthright. The last Tokyo Cabinet shake-up brought into office a group of conservatives influenced by such old friends of the Emperor as Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma. Is a split developing between the businessmen and nobles, on the one hand, and the Armyj chiefs, on the other? If so, the split is bound to weaken Japan's war effort. Washington does not want to heal the breach by an overt propaganda attack on the Emperor...