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...broad, strategic repercussions of the riots than with their ostensible cause: the acquittal by a U.S. court-martial of a G.I. charged with killing a Chinese. The extra- territorial privileges enjoyed by American citizens on Formosa are "unendurable," said Singapore's leading Chinese daily, anti-Communist Sin Chew Jit Poh. Manila's biggest paper, the Sunday Times, agreed that this was "the root cause of trouble...
Tufts coach Jit Ricker plans to start John McGrath, the team's leading pitcher for the past two years. In the Jumbos' only game to date, McGrath led Tufts to a 9-3 victory over Boston University...
Nehru tried to dress up his surrender to Tandon as a gesture for "unity," but his followers were not fooled. Last week two of his cabinet ministers, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (Communications) and A jit Prasad Jain (Rehabilitation) resigned from the Congress Party, but stayed on in the cabinet at Nehru's plea. (Their remaining in office, jeered Tandon, created an "impossible situation.") Other dissidents are sure to follow them. Said a veteran Congressman: "Nehru has no guts. He dislikes all that Tandon stands for, but he will campaign to get Tandon's nominees elected to Parliament to insure...
Even the one-man lobby was startled by his success. J. J. (for Jag jit) Singh, president of the India League of America, got through Congress an amendment which will permit famine-stricken India (pop. 389,000,000) to share in the largesse of the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. He had finally put through something that India's timid official delegate had not even dared to bring up at UNRRA's Atlantic City assemblage...
...recognized as Italy's sagest soldier. He had opposed the Greek venture. Germany's Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel is also said to have opposed the Pindus push, recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway. Being obliged to cons jit Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow hard. Last week he retired "at his own request" from the service of a Duce whom he once offered to crush...