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...bakers submitted to bread rationing, and the Labor candidates won the by-elections. But the margin of victory had been narrowed. The coal and steel workers of Pontypool, Monmouthshire rejected 24-year-old "Workingman Tory" Peter Welch (his father is a local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since 1945: 84%) and in blitz-shattered, slum-infested North Battersea (loss...
Eerie. In Manila, Cart Driver Alejandro Salazar complained that a G.I. passenger got mad about something or other...
...over Belgrade Sept. 8, 1944. I bailed out, landed in a cornfield where the stalks were still standing, my leg hurt badly. . . . After a few hours peasants came to where I was lying. They said: 'Chetniks, Chetniks' and 'doctor, doctor.' They brought a two-wheeled cart and made me understand they were taking me to a doctor. The cart's jolting hurt my leg; when they noticed it, they placed me on some boards and carried...
...Mukden's cart-jammed main street, still called "Stalin Prospect," a merchant, who claimed his shop had been looted by the Russians, said he would reopen "when the American consulate tells stores to reopen." Told that the American consulate had no such power, he winked knowingly and persisted: "Then when the American consulate tells the Chinese officials to tell us to reopen stores...
...middle of the main street, painted in huge letters on the rough pavement, was the message: "Vote for the American Republic-Viva VAmerica." A peasant swung his oxcart violently to one side. Said he: "We don't want these wheels going over those words." The wheels of his cart had been salvaged from a German gun carriage...