Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Peru has Bustamante as its President, the stage is set for change. Because Bustamante had stayed clear of partisan politics, he was able to fuse Haya de la Torre's radical Apra party, socialists and a handful of Communists and near-fascists into the victorious National Democratic Front. Now his problem is to hold them together while pushing through his social-reform program. The first test might well come this week when Congress (dominated by the Apristas) meets to act on Bustamante's program...
Congressman Engel, no partisan either of labor or management, was also "amazed to learn" that the highest paid machine-gun assembler at the Colt Arms Co. was paid $8,741 in 1942, "or $241 more than the base pay of a lieutenant general in the Army...
...interrogating suspects. The press is tightly controlled and the courts -on the admission of the Yugoslavs themselves-are sadly in need of reform and reorganization. The affairs of state are rigidly administered by Tito and a few close cronies. Foreign Minister Subasich and others who were added to the Partisan cabinet last March have little real power...
Belgrade abounds with stories of Partisan and Russian excesses and of the fear under which the people are living. Many are no doubt true, many are probably false. In any event it should be realized that most of the people who talk to Britons and Americans in Belgrade are people with grievances (those who are content don't run to foreign representatives) and often they are people whose record during the occupation was spotted...
This sennet on the wreathed Tory horn electrified Britons who had all but forgotten, during his five years of wartime Parliamentary speeches, what Churchill can do at the cry of partisan tallyho. Cried Labor's startled Daily Herald: "Crazy broadcast." Cried the Communist Daily Worker: "Conscienceless demagogy." Cried Labor Leader Herbert Morrison (lately Prime Minister Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash...