Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year the Communists got to Shensi (1935), the world Comintern line swung to the "united front" policy which advocated solidarity among all anti-fascist forces. Moscow instructed Ye-ran to seek a united front with Chiang Kai-shek against the Japanese...
...went to the polls in Israel's first election. Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai (Labor Party) polled 35% of the vote, more than double the total of its nearest competitor. Closely bunched were the left-wing United Workers, which want alignment with Russia; the United Religious Front, which wants a state conforming to the Talmud; and the ultranationalist Freedom Movement, which wants a conquest of Palestine and Transjordan before peace is made with the Arabs. The Communists got 3.5% of the vote...
...members of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S., plus pickets from the American Veterans Committee and other organizations, paraded in front of Carnegie Hall with placards (GIESEKING PLAYS TONIGHT-WILL ILSE KOCH PLAY SATURDAY? GIESEKING PLAYS TO THE TUNE OF 6,OOO,OOO MURDERED JEWS, etc.), the concert was canceled. A sellout crowd of 2,760 was turned away. Gieseking flew off for Paris...
Last week, hundreds of U.S. and Canadian readers were following the intellectual problem of fictional Arthur Tyndall; as he learned more about Toronto University, they learned too. Warden Tyndall was the hero of a new novel by a front-ranking Canadian novelist and short-story writer, 45-year-old Morley Callaghan (They Shall Inherit the Earth, Such Is My Beloved). Actually, Tyndall's purpose (and Callaghan's) was to do more than unravel the character of Toronto: it was to raise money...
Untold News. When last week's meeting broke up, staffers went through the motions of getting out two more editions. In the composing room, printers set up a front-page box bearing a curt farewell. As had happened too often, readers had to turn to other papers to get the complete news; the Star did not even carry an obit on its own death...