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...British to get out. And by the same vote, Egypt announced its intention to rule the Sudan alone, which Britain and Egypt have jointly administered since 1899. Fired by the brave deeds of Parliament, Cairo mobs howled: "Give us arms. Where are the arms?" Egypt's bloodthirsty Moslem Brotherhood vowed to "knock at the doors of heaven with the heads of the British." At Port Said, the northern entrance to the Suez Canal, student gangs looted stores, over turned a British ambulance, careened through a British army camp hurling "Salah-el-Din cocktails" (homemade fire bombs named...
...resume that other argument." With that, fighting Nye addressed himself to the faults of Winston Churchill and the sins of the Tories. In the Arcadia cinema next door, Attlee murmured: "We may have our differences; we may have our disputes, but we all have the same aim . . . the brotherhood...
...some 9,000,000 on its rolls while the C.I.O. claims only 6,000,000, probably has no more than 4,500,000. A.F.L. treasuries are bulging-the Teamsters Union alone has a balance of $26 million, the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union has $38 million and the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has $45 million. At the convention, the A.F.L. embarked on a revolutionary policy of compulsory contributions to a political education fund...
Died. Alvanley Johnston, 76, for 25 years Grand Chief Engineer of the 80,000-member Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; of a heart attack; in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Born in Canada, Johnston became an engineer at 22, as a labor leader took the stand that "it takes guts and skill to run a locomotive, and there's risk, and that's worth money." In 1946, the President's threat to draft striking railroaders into the Army so angered Johnston that he broke all relations with the Administration, supported Dewey...
...honored guest. Ambition: to be head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army," the Moslem Brotherhood, the Crusaders of Islam. His most recent victim: Jordan's King Abdullah...