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...January 1947, his voice may carry far in the Great Debate. Last week The Progressive, official weekly organ of La Follette's party, complained of "the almost frenzied haste with which the Administration is driving for establishment of the international agency which will permit the great powers to govern the world...
Most of his colleagues in the Provisional Government, still unrecognized by Britain and the U.S., had come up from Algiers to help him govern France and the world's No. 2 empire, most of it still in French hands...
...traditional Republican respects at the tomb of the first Republican President. But Parcel No. 3 was the main show; at St. Louis Candidate Dewey had assembled the 25 other Republican Governors of the U.S. This gave him an opportunity to remind the voters that these Republicans "govern three-fourths of the American people...
...power, showed more liking for conservatives than for Communists who had given him powerful support. He lost the confidence of Chile's Popular Front, failed to gain the complete confidence of his new friends on the Right. Result: turmoil. Rios, without a political majority, found it difficult to govern at all. Chile's numerous ills, notably including a rampant inflation, grew worse & worse...
Recent dissensions further weakened his Cabinet. Now, on opening a new session of Congress, President Rios was trying to form some combination to give him firm support, allow him to govern effectively. The job did not look easy...