Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lopsided majority of 53 to 5, with only the Soviet bloc in opposition and Yugoslavia abstaining, the U.N. General Assembly last week approved the U.S.British-sponsored resolution listing twelve "essentials" for peace and international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 21). Then, by a similar margin, the Assembly rejected the rival Russian resolution proposing a phony non-aggression pact among the big powers and smearing the Western nations as warmongers. The vote meant total defeat for the Russians' major effort at the current Assembly session...
...C.G.I.L., Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than the walkout staged by Communists in France last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 5). The Italian strike stopped the steel and auto factories of the north; it was partly effective in the ports, and in urban transport systems. Nevertheless, millions of workers ignored the strike order. Instead of being paralyzed, Italy felt only...
What did all this prove? Perón made no effort to disprove Deputy Cattaneo's general contention that Peronistas were getting rich in office, and he did not list his own present wealth-or his wife's. But in attacking Cattáneo and the newspapers, Perón left little doubt that his final aim was to smash the last two citadels of a free press in Argentina and rid himself of every last vestige of opposition...
Died. Major General George Moore, 62, commander of Corregidor when it fell to the Japanese in 1942; by his own hand (his suicide note said that he feared insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years...
Coal Mines & Graveyards. Actually he is not. The son of a Norwegian immigrant, he was born on Christmas Day of 1887 in little (pop. 500) San Antonio, N.Mex. His father, August Holver Hilton, parlayed a jug of whisky into the town's general store, livery stable, and eventually a coal mine, which made him one of the richest men in that part of the country...