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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other serious contender for the mayor's office is Governor's Councilor Patrick J. (Sonny) McDonough. With a history of ward leadership and prominence in the State Democratic party, McDonough conducts a vigorous, personal campaign, often spending whole days shaking hands with everyone he meets on the street; his goal is 85,000 handshakes before election day. Behind him, McDonough has a large block of South Boston votes plus the backing of a number of CIO unions. Though he would like to match the vote that Hynes hopes for, McDonough's unfamiliarity with the voters in large areas...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Curley Has Edge in Boston Election | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...delivered a major address at a dinner given jointly by the Foreign Policy Association, the India League of America, the East and West Association, and the American Institute of Pacific Relations, in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom. Said he: "People talk about India's desire for leadership in Asia. We have no desire for leadership . . . [But] whether we want to or not ... we have to play an important role . . . There is no halfway house . . . Either India makes good [or] she just fades away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: The Education of a Pandit | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

After 23 days without leadership, for her government, France seems to have settled her political turmoil--at least for the time being. On Friday, Georges Bidault, a leader of the moderate Popular Republican party, and his Cabinet appointments, were approved by a large majority of the National Assembly. What Bidault had succeeded in doing was resurrecting the coalition of moderates that has governed France since...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...necessary, and that the extremist partics, the Communists and de Gaulle's RPF might then gain more scats. The collapse of Cabinets is a commonplace in French polities--in fact the Queuillo regime, which lasted a little over a year, was considered an oddity of longevity. Lack of Cabinet leadership delays only the top-level decisions, for the ordinary administrative bureaucracy goes on functioning as usual...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...real signiflence of the recent crisis is as evidence of the chronic weakness of French government, an ominous weakness in a country that is a key to Western European recovery. France is apparently incapable of a government with sufficient Assembly support and strong enough leadership to carry through a long range program. Typically, the regimes of the last twenty years have been weak coalitions of moderates, able to reach agreement on only a few immediate issues, and held together mostly by a common fear of extremists of the Right and Left...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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