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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud explosion lit the tracks and started a spat of rifle fire. Shadowy figures ran crouching through the tall kaoliang grass and the southbound express whistled in the distance. The Japanese blamed the Chinese and said the blast had torn up 31 inches of track. Nevertheless, the train passed over the spot at full speed without mishap...
...Kenmare, Viscount Castlerosse, Britain's balloon-shaped Walter Winchell; of heart disease; in Killarney, Eire. Heir to vast Irish estates, he was having a hard time making his luxurious ends meet when Lord Beaverbrook took him up after War I, made him his star gossip in the Sunday Express. A 300-lb., bullet-headed dandy, Val spread out from bar-&-boudoir intelligence to light commentary on international affairs...
...chosen, but now, as evidence of good faith, a captured British officer accompanied him. The officer was red-faced, one-armed, one-eyed Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, one of the Empire's famed warriors, who had been captured by the Italians in 1941. London's Express called General de Wiart a "real-life, elusive Pimpernel." Not obliged to return to Italy, he turned up in London, while his Italian traveling companion went on to General Eisenhower's headquarters in Algiers...
...said that the Allies, who recognize Badoglio, would probably continue to treat with him as the representative of the Italian people. Stating that the Italian people may not approve of Badoglio, LaPiana said that he did not believe the Allied military government would give the Italians "a chance to express their preference for a democratic government. It is to be doubted if there will be more democracy in Italy under an Allied military government than under the Badoglio administration...
Queueing workers complained to an Express reporter: 1) there are seldom special busses for workers from factories to distant railroad stations; 2) no extra busses for peak hours; 3) workers are not given priority over shoppers. In Liverpool, said the Express, "there is no all-night bus service; ship-repair workers sometimes have to sleep beside the job they have finished. . . . The bus queues are something more than an inconvenience to the public. They add as much as three hours every day to a working day of eight hours. ... By bringing a few hundred men from other tasks...