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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure Thing. In Los Angeles, Henry Juppenlatz paid his taxes, dropped dead...
...manpower, Secretary Forrestal had first proposed both U.M.T. and Selective Service. Most Congressmen shied away from U.M.T., and it was considered dead. Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee proposed a six-month U.M.T. program combined with the regular training program to cut down the need for instructors...
Fear still flickered through Italy on the morning after the election. Bologna, the Red capital, seemed like a dead city, its medieval porticos empty, its gleaming pastry shops deserted. In Milan's Cathedral Square, 25,000 Communist partisans staged a demonstration (despite a government ban) ; they were dispersed by police, who fired machine guns into the air, and by a timely rainstorm. One policeman was killed. But beaming Minister of the Interior Mario Scelba was sure that his security forces could maintain order...
...trouble was that reforms would not be easily carried out. Many De Gasperi supporters were dead against them. Giovanni Elken, Jewish secretary of the Christian Democratic Party in Bologna, explained: "Six million of our votes were cast by people who were just antiCommunists. I've even talked to a monarchist who believed that we will restore the monarchy. Yet it is our essential moral duty to bring about reforms that will raise wails from these six millions." Said Father "X," the Milan priest who organized Catholic partisans and kept machine guns in his study last winter (TIME...
Died. Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 80, Hirohito's Polonius and Premier on V-J day; of a liver ailment; in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. A cautious navyman, lie was hated as a "moderate" by the military jingoists, who left him for dead in the 1936 young-officer insurrection, hounded him into hiding after the 1945 surrender...