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...House of Commons where the Government has only 126 seats against 119 for the combined Opposition, such an event would be extremely hazardous. The Cabinet could allow the intraparty fight to flare on the floor of the House of Commons, and risk defeat. Or it could cancel the tariff increases. Neither alternative was sweet...
Fire & Water. In Berlin there were flare-ups of resistance against the conquerors. Russians reported new fires started by German underground fanatics, and announced that the subways had been flooded by the Germans, drowning hundreds hiding out. Ten days after the Nazi capital's surrender, bodies were still rotting in the streets. The northern pockets which had been holding out behind Russian lines were quickly swabbed out. On the Courland peninsula in Latvia some 190,000 Germans were taken. Around Danzig, Gdynia...
Perhaps it was just a routine flare-up of personal pique, perhaps a touch of war-weariness had made the Palace Guardsmen snappish. Whatever the cause, stories of White House bitterness and intrigue crackled through Washington last week...
...staggering clinical experiment, in which English Psychologist K. O. Newman acted as his own guinea pig, is recorded in Two Hundred and Fifty Times I Saw a Play (Pelagos Press, Oxford; $1). Moreover, Newman saw the play-Terence Rattigan's Flare Path-at successive performances, always sitting in the same third-row aisle seat...
Waiting for Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his return from Moscow was a flare-up between the Conservative and Labor wings of his Coalition Government. Casus belli: Britain's planning bill for postwar housing (TIME, July 24). Laborites and ultra-Conservatives could not agree on how much the Government should pay property owners whose lands and houses would be nationalized. Cried Laborites: no more concessions...