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...Last week, after much wrangling, the applicant withdrew his application; one of the new union members was standing firm on the strength of a 17-year tenure, one temporary employe was about to be dismissed, and the fourth man, who had been at Normandy 14 years, was facing dismissal on the pretext that he too was a "temporary" employe...
Arab independence of foreign rule had foundered once before, after World War I, when Britain withdrew her support of the Arabs after they had helped her to defeat Turkey. This time, there was greater power behind Pan-Arab aspirations. The rest of the world eagerly watched and waited...
...unrest which British intervention prevented from reaching crisis proportions last fall. The Communist Party had had a determined hand in continuing to give the social discontent a political form and drive. The one thing that gave pause to the recalcitrant Socialists last week was the fear that if they withdrew from the Government, Communists might increase their strength...
Meanwhile, France voluntarily withdrew from the Italian island of Elba, which her North African troops occupied last May. It was to Elba that Napoleon was first exiled. From Elba he dashed back to restore Europe to its traditional turmoil during the Hundred Days. As A.M.G. authorities (British and U.S.) took over the rocky little island last week, the French might well ponder upon the famed palindrome attributed to Napoleon. Read backward or forward, it led to the same historic conclusion: "Able was I ere I saw Elba...
Meanwhile, France voluntarily withdrew from the Italian island of Elba, which her North African troops occupied last May. It was to Elba that Napoleon was first exiled. From Elba he dashed back to restore Europe to its traditional turmoil during the Hundred Days. As A.M.G. authorities (British and U.S.) took over the rocky little island last week, the French might well ponder upon the famed palindrome attributed to Napoleon. Read backward or forward, it led to the same historic conclusion: "Able was I ere I saw Elba...