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...likelihood was that divided France would continue to be governed by a , coalition. In the meantime, the govern ment would be run not by men with authority but by political zombies, powerless to make basic decisions. In the next government some of the faces would be different, but they were almost certain to wear the same ghostly pallor...
Scelba won his vote of confidence as expected, 300 to 283, and for the first time in three months, Italy had a govern ment able to command a narrow majority in parliament. But it might not be for long. The case of Montagna had rocked Italy, and it could well bring down the government. For the case displayed, for all to see, the decadence that infects too much of Italy's moneyed classes, the irresponsibility of privilege that embitters even men of good will...
Swinging Doors. Why, McCarthy wanted to know, did "this Fifth Amend ment Communist [get] a hurry-up honorable discharge after I had written Secretary Stevens asking he be court-martialed?" To find out, McCarthy called to the stand Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, Camp Kilmer's commander. Said the general: regulations prevented him from discussing security cases. Whereupon Joe McCarthy ordered the doors shut for a closed session...
...addition, the economy will be shored up by built-in stabilizers, e.g., unemploy ment compensation (which the President wants to broaden), social security, farm price supports. To give the economy a push, the excess-profits tax has been eliminated and the President has proposed a new business "incentive" tax program...
...Ment, raising the problem for military engineers to consider, gives no solution. Even experts would have a hard time distinguishing a delayed-action bomb from a dud or a harmless fake, especially if the object had been seen to sink to the bottom of the harbor. Civil defense authorities would have to decide promptly whether to evacuate the city, and a wrong decision either way would prove costly. In any case, the threatening object would have to be investigated, and this would not be a job for the poor in spirit. "An atomic-bomb disposal unit," says De Ment conservatively...