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...when it came to appropriations, Republican leaders did not propose to be rushed. Senator Styles Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that a thorough study of U.S. supplies would be made before his committee submitted recommendations; the study, starting this week, would take at least a fortnight. "We do not intend," said Bridges,' "to deliberately shortchange our people." The Appropriations Committee of the House, which must originate all such legislation, was not yet sure when its hearings would begin...
...Fortnight ago, when Rumania's Communist-eclipsed young (26) King Michael and his handsome mamma, Queen Helen, flew to London for Cousin Elizabeth's wedding, he was asked if he intended to return to Bucharest. Said he: "I have heard these reports...They are not true. I have my responsibility and I intend to meet it." He said he would fly back Nov. 23. Last week the deadline passed, and Michael stayed on in London...
...until 3 a.m., directing his army of 5,000,000 workers. Less than a third of this great mass is actually Communist, but the Cocos hold three-fifths of the top executive jobs in all major unions. At the strike-bound port of Marseille, where Red violence exploded last fortnight, U.S. seamen refused to unload U.S. ships. To them Benoît Frachon, who conceals unlimited brutality beneath a mask of affability, telegraphed appreciation of their sympathy with "French workers in their courageous fight against the imperialism of the Marshall Plan...
...Communists have almost throttled open opposition in Eastern Europe. Last week their stooges took over the remnants of Mikolajcyk's Peasant Party in Poland and denounced "Anglo-Saxon imperialism." Last fortnight a military court sentenced Rumania's Maniu to life imprisonment. Yugoslavia's Mihailovich and Bulgaria's Petkoff had long since been shot. Hungary's Communists had swallowed the Smallholders Party, and last week Czech Communists began to break up their opposition with arrests...
...Melvin H. Knisely, a gaunt, tall (6 ft. 3) physiologist at the University of Chicago. For 17 years, Dr. Knisely and a squad of co-workers at Chicago and the University of Tennessee have been bending over their microscopes, laboriously studying the circulation of the blood. Last fortnight, Science published their epochal findings...