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...week before, the strongly socialistic Mouvement de Liberation National, France's No. 2 Resistance group, had also met in Paris, roundly rejected a fusion with F.N. Basic reason: distrust of the F.N.'s Communist complexion. M.L.N. delegates assailed the new Party line laid down by Maurice Thorez, France's No. 1 Communist, who recently returned from wartime exile in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 11). Thorez had called for the disbanding of all Resistance militia, even Communist armed bands who had seized authority in some localities. "Public security," he said, "should be assured by the regular police...
...years Robber John Giles (37, 5 ft. 11, 160 lbs., dark complexion, brown hair, tough-looking) and Robber Edgar Cook (31, 5 ft. 4, 154 lbs., light complexion, hazel eyes, talks incessantly) were just dull names on Midwest police circulars. But in the tarnished democracy of crime a man can always emerge from mediocrity by that feat of supermechanics, a successful prison break...
...victorious trend of the fight for Leyte Island, whose capture will give U.S. Army forces a strong clamp on the mid-Philippines, did not change last week. But the complexion of the fight was altered considerably. The Japs stiffened, and they brought in help from other bases. It looked as though U.S. communiqué writers had been overconfident again...
This change in complexion was hastily noted by Associated Pressman C. Yates McDaniel. He wrote one day, "The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign [is] in sight," and said next day: "Japanese reinforcements landed on Leyte Island indicated today the Nipponese will bitterly and bloodily dispute General Douglas MacArthur's belief that the end of the Leyte-Samar campaign in the Philippines is in sight...
...Washington held forth with an economics major (these we are assured were in the minority) on the complexion of supply and demand but with no weakening on either side. Wartime shortages couldn't be blamed Joe had met his match...