Word: factionalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revelations: "I went to Moscow not as a representative of the Catholic Church, nor as an ambassador of the U.S. State Department, but as a private citizen. ... I am not a Communist and I plainly said so in my public address to the Polish Army. ... I belong to no faction, no clique, nor party...
...editorial Editor Labarthe, who now holds aloof from any French faction, wrote of resistance inside France: "We know that strong roots nourished by blood are growing, some day to break through to the light. . . . Four years of silence . . . have unconsciously changed people's approach to almost every problem." Added he, in a passage obviously aimed at Charles de Gaulle, among others: ". . . Men who have gone through the fire of defeat will feel differently from those who have escaped. . . . The men inside Europe will not show enthusiasm when those who lived in foreign lands try to judge and direct internal...
...troops into exile, observed the ritual of grief, not even shaving, until the day of liberation. Serb émigrés, already uneasy lest Peter II throw in his lot with Tito, now feared that he would further shake his standing among those still loyal to him in the faction-split homeland...
...Greeks. For Peter's neighbor sovereign in exile, 43-year-old King George of Greece, sheltered by Britain but unwanted by his people, Winston Churchill had no mention. Of the divided Greeks themselves he complained that one faction had "murdered" a British officer, and added: "It is painful to see [their] confusion and internecine strife. . . . Greek killing Greek with munitions sent to them for killing Germans...
Until last week a robber-baron-conscious faction in the State Department had persistently acted as if any cooperation with industry smacked of treason. And U.S. international oil companies have similarly regarded any Government interference in their policies as an affront-at least until they got into trouble abroad. Now there is at least basis for hope that the two can work together...