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...liberated Lyons CBS's Eric Sevareid found and interviewed an anachronistic Frenchman whom the F.F.I. would give a good deal to find. Charles Maurras, 76, editor of the Royalist Action Fran false, diehard antirepublican and brilliant man of letters, was hiding from F.F.I, vengeance. Wrote Sevareid...
...four months Exile Premier George Papandreou had been pitched and tossed in the blanket of Greek politics. In Cairo there were diehard royalists; in Greece, diehard leftists. At the Lebanon Conference to reconcile Greek factions (TIME, May 29), Greek factions fought about the King's return, civil liberties, Governmental posts for members of the Greek underground Government (PEEA). Envoys of the Communist-led EAM, biggest of the homeland's resistance groups, were offered five Cabinet posts, insisted on holding six key posts. When their demands were refused, the men of EAM returned to Greece in a huff...
...knew it was now or never, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk summoned his Cabinet. In a paneled drawing room at No. 18 Kensington Palace Gardens, under a staring portrait of late great Premier Wladislaw Sikorski, apostle of Russo-Polishrapprochement, the ministers listened to the news. President Wladislaw Raczkiewicz, a diehard Russophobe, rose theatrically, said coldly: "I wash my hands of this." Then he stalked out. But his colleagues stayed on for hours of bitter but subdued talk...
...Senate now are the veterans who have risen by seniority to chairmanships or high rank on the eleven important committees. Connecticut's Francis Maloney and Missouri's Harry Truman are independent voters and thinkers; neither has much influence on the floor. Montana's Burt Wheeler, diehard Roosevelt hater, is a formidable individual fighter. But the real leaders are Kentucky's Barkley, Georgia's Walter F. George, Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, Alabama's John Bankhead, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar and Texas' Tom Connally. These...
Against the moderates stand the diehard and potent ultranationalists. In stormy sessions, men like General Kazimierz Sosnkowski have taken an adamant stand against Russia, have made their will prevail. All Poles have long memories of Poland's repression at foreign hands-Russian as well as Prussian and Austrian. But the Kremlin's long memory has not forgotten that General Sosnkowski and his followers are the remnant of the old anti-Soviet regime. Once led by Marshal Pilsudski, they had dreamt of a Poland reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, had refused the Curzon Line...