Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists might return to the government, and De Gaulle decide to take power by force. In this event, De Gaulle could count on most of the army and about half the police. This would be the worst thing that could happen, because De Gaulle would be in the position of the revolutionary. A section of French opinion would be hesitant and confused. Fighting might be protracted, but De Gaulle would...
...After Count Bernadotte was murdered, the government of Israel gave the impression that it would seriously try to break up organized terrorism. It passed a drastic anti-terrorist decree, forced the illegal Irgun into the regular Israeli army and clapped 187 members of the Stern gang, which boasted of killing Bernadotte, into the Jaffa jail. Last week it was quite apparent that the Israeli government's bark was no match for the Stern gang's bite...
...Little Fraternizing. Nobody knew how many Sternists had escaped. Complained one prison official: "It is impossible to count them now because they won't stay in one place. But they have promised to give us a count tonight." A Sternist spokesman thought more than half had returned to the jail; he expected more to come back "if they can get through the police lines." It was only a protest demonstration, not a jailbreak, he explained. "We have just been out doing a little fraternization with...
...jail with armored cars at ten-yard intervals. A loudspeaker in the courtyard summoned the prisoners to come out in groups of five and submit to search. As they surrendered, they were bundled off under heavy guard to the high-walled prison fortress of Acre. At the last count, 20 to 40 prisoners were still missing. Said a bemused government spokesman: "They probably went home to see their families and will be back in a few days...
...violators were four Frenchmen accused (and convicted in absentia by drumhead courts) of wartime collaboration with the Nazis. The four were small fry compared with Count Jacques Duge de Bernonville (TIME, Sept. 20), who was still battling against a deportation order in Montreal courts last week. But they were guilty of the same offense against Canada's laws: entering the country illegally, on false passports...