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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ceremonies at Jogjakarta went off with the fine precision of a Javanese ritual dance. The electors took their places around a U-shaped table, behind signs lettered in the republican colors of red and white; each stood for one of the 16 states that make up the new federated republic of the United States of Indonesia. They solemnly drank Dutch chocolate, munched cookies, then cast their votes for the U.S.I.'s first President. There was only one candidate: Soekarno...
...months Washington had suspected that Western military secrets were leaking to Russia from France, the North Atlantic nations' most potent Continental ally and the top recipient of U.S. arms aid. By last week it was clear that such worries were at least partly justified. At least one top officer in the French army had been guilty of gross carelessness, or worse, in the handling of top-secret military information. The officer was General Georges Marie Joseph Revers, chief of the French general staff, who a fortnight ago was summarily sacked by the French cabinet...
...given the text of the report to General Mast. In his turn, Mast admitted that he had passed it on to the informer. In Paris last week, fellow officers reasoned that, in handing out the report which was critical of French cabinet ministers, General Revers had probably been playing one of his political tricks; it was known that he had also given the report to several politicians and officials...
...least one Roman senator, grey, motherly, left-wing Socialist Angelina Merlin, this situation was a "social disgrace." A year ago last August, she introduced a bill to outlaw houses of prostitution in Italy...
Like Enemy Airplanes. Bordello-keepers united against the anti-brothel bill and raised a 60 million lire ($96,000) fighting fund. In one house in Milan, any customer signing a petition against the bill was awarded one free visit. The girls and the worried madam in a swank Naples house appealed to venerable Senator Benedetto Croce, Italy's foremost philosopher, to block the bill "so that they too might have a prosperous holy year." Letters against the bill poured in on Senator Merlin, who had herself toured Rome's brothels to collect ammunition for her side...