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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Open this week from 8:45 to 5:30 o'clock, Widener features pictures of Commencement at Harvard through three centuries, a model of the University as it stood at the turn of the century, and the Gutenberg Bible. Don't mind the men in uniform around the latter--they're really very amiable gentlemen...
Clean Sweep. In northern Galilee, where the Israelis were not opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...
Predikant to Politics. In the general elections last week, Jan Smuts's United Party-which stood for Commonwealth solidarity and relative liberalism on the race question-was nosed out by the Re-United'National Party. The Smuts party won 65 seats in the lower house of parliament; the Nationalists...
...People's Will? On the night of his return, Haya stood on a platform in front of the Casa del Pueblo (House of the People), party headquarters. His left arm was outstretched in the Aprista salute, as thousands (APRA's estimate: 200,000; opposition estimate: 15,000) passed in review. While fireworks lighted the sky, the people chanted "Elections, yes! Tyranny, no!" (The day before, Bustamante had postponed congressional by-elections for a third time.) Then they jammed the Avenida Alfonso Ugarte to hear their leader...
...another faith. In 1932, he announced that Communism was man's hope. He was promptly hailed by fellow travelers as the world's greatest writer. Then, in 1936, Gide and a party of friends were invited by the Soviet government to Russia. While thousands looked on, Gide stood in Moscow's Red Square with Stalin and Molotov (see cut), and delivered a funeral oration for Maxim Gorki. Almost overnight, Gide, the longtime champion of individualism, became the literary hero of a totalitarian state...