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Blood in Athens. It was a sun-drenched Sunday. But British Tommies and grey-clad Greek police rimmed Athens' Constitution Square. Premier George Papandreou had forbidden a demonstration by the Communist-controlled EAM. Presently the sound of thousands of people marching and chanting swelled and ebbed like surf. The marchers broke a police cordon. They carried flags of Russia, Greece, Britain, the U.S. Men, women & children surged toward Government Palace. Police Chief Paunias Ebert ordered: "Fire...
...Scribner Editor Maxwell Perkins once discovered a four-letter word in a Hemingway manuscript, showed it to the late Publisher Charles Scribner. "Remember," he said, "that we're forbidden by contract to change a word [of Hemingway]." "Dear, dear." said Mr. Scribner, "we will have to discuss this fully when I return from lunch." Then he vaguely jotted down the word on a pad headed: "What To Do Today...
...French theater of operations without permission. Their aim: to be the first Americans to "make a juncture" with U.S. troops in the northern theater. They were the first, by ten days, having passed unscathed between two German columns. For this scandalous breach of regulations the five were suspended (i.e., forbidden to file copy) by Brigadier General Tristram Tupper-for two days...
...criminals, high and low, in both Germany and Japan . . . must be dealt with promptly, justly and relentlessly. Germany and Japan must be completely disarmed . . . and the means of rearmament must be forbidden them. . . ." Dewey drew a careful distinction between the immediate peace with Germany and Japan, and the planning of a long-range peace organization. His conception of a permanent peace organization was squarely in line with the plans submitted to Dumbarton Oaks, but with this difference: "I believe this is a subject which should be talked about widely, earnestly, and publicly. . . . We cannot meet the problems of peace...
...Chinese educator, now teach only physics, medicine, engineering, agriculture. The students are almost the only able-bodied young male civilians to be seen in the cities where the proportion of young men to young women is now about one to 40. The students must wear a special uniform, are forbidden to appear on the streets with girls or to have dates with them. Even brothels are closed to them. Their chief relaxation is to get drunk-but even this is difficult. Japan's wartime grog ration is two bottles of beer a month for each male adult...