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...asked for an extraordinary party congress to decide the party's pos ture before the 1956 general elections. Implicit purpose: to oust Léon Martinaud-Déplat as the party's administrative boss. Martinaud-Déplat yielded to the demand but spitefully made the bleakest arrangements possible: he scheduled a daytime congress last week in Paris' dreary, colonnaded Salle Wagram, knowing that a wrestling match was due to begin at 6:30. "If Mendès wants to fight," said Martinaud-Déplat sourly, "let him stay on and fight against the fighters...
...bleakest moments in the Korean fighting last September, the Defense Department took over the 48,000-ton United States, standing one-third finished at Newport News, Va. and announced that the ship (biggest passenger vessel ever built in the U.S.) would be converted into a carrier for troops. Last week, without giving any reason, Defense Secretary George Marshall returned the ship to its owner, the United States Lines, told the line to go ahead and finish its $70 million dreamboat as a luxury liner...
Quietly Sir Stafford outlined the bleakest prospect yet conceded by a Labor Minister-a revolution in Britain's internal economy. In cold figures and concrete decisions, he laid down a program for 152 British industries: "Export...
...greatness of this country," Payne observes, "is terrifying. [China is a nation] swiftly changing and terribly virile . . . where the metal is molten and the people are searching for new gods, or the old gods transformed into a more virile strength. . . ." Through the diary he kept during the bleakest years (1941-44) of China's war, the author comes back again & again to this thought - sometimes in prose, sometimes in verse...
...terms of the total Allied naval strength available in the combat area, it was a worse disaster than Pearl Harbor. Bleakest fact of all: the known Japanese losses in no way compensated for the Allied losses. The Navy carefully qualified its report that one Japanese cruiser and one destroyer were probably sunk, two other cruisers and three destroyers may have been put out of action. At best, the score was 13 to 7, the wrong way, in the battle of Java...