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FRANCE Heeding the Master France's Communist leaders were busy carrying out orders. The Kremlin had spoken and Messrs. Thorez & Co. were dutifully sowing disruption far & wide. Main target was the U.S. military assistance program. To halt American arms shipments at ports, strikes were set off last week among longshoremen and transport workers...
Proceeding by freighter from Biarritz to South America, the play chiefly chronicles the long-established relationship (or lack of one) between a rich, rampageous, epileptic Ecuadorian general and a prim, suicide-seeking, coffin-toting English governess. A kind of double target, Now I Lay Me contrasts farcically-as E. M. Forster and others have done more seriously-the torrid zone of the emotions with the frigid; i.e., Latin excesses and flamboyance with British repressions and good form...
Griffin named no further names but instead stated, "Because so many of its graduates reach positions of great trust and power in the government. Harvard is the target of Communist infiltration schemes, among both faculty and students...
...booming factories were turning out all the goods Europe could use and more; the problem now was to sell the excess where it would earn dollars - that is, in the U.S. market. That meant that the U.S. would have to accept more imports, said Hoffman. ECA's target was modest - an increase in imports of "several hundred million dollars " within the next two years, amounting to only a drop in the bucket of U.S. production. But it would be enough, Hoffman conceded, to "create problems in a few localities - competition always does...
...following two days the party's left wing was-comparatively speaking-as sweet as pie. Paul Robeson busied himself with nothing more provocative than singing 01' Man River. Manhattan's leftist firebrand, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, emitted a few wild yips, but concentrated on a routine target-Harry Truman, whom he described as a "little alderman in a big house...