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...form a new coalition, Yoshida may have to welcome back some of the errant Hatoyamaites or make a deal with the rightist Progressive Party of peg-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu. Yoshida will need all the cooperation he can get from the right, because the left is getting stronger at every election. This week 138 Socialists and one Communist were elected. A year ago there were only 46 Socialists in the Lower Chamber...
...provision of the agrarian law which bars court appeals from land-reform decisions. The last four supreme-court justices who ruled in favor of a landholder were thrown out and replaced by stooges of the Red-tinged government; thus the company appeal seems doomed. United Fruit may then peg its hopes on a statement of principle enunciated by Cordell Hull after Mexico expropriated U.S. oil companies in 1938. Secretary of State Hull conceded that a government had the right to expropriate property, but insisted that compensation must be "adequate, effective and prompt."* By depositing bonds of doubtful worth to United...
...went on the inactive list, packed up her civilian clothes (a good part bought at Peg Newton's, a New York shop which specializes in dressing tall women), and went to England for a vacation. But she had hardly landed before the Marines asked her to come back to take charge of the Women's Reserve. She did. In 1948 the Women's Reserve was integrated into the Marine Corps. Judy was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and eventually put in command of the women's officer-training detachment at Quantico...
...Peg in the Heel. A few weeks after Yeo-Thomas was flown back to England, the Gestapo threw a force of 32,000 agents into Paris, concentrated on the task of breaking the Resistance. Yeo-Thomas was rushed back to France. The Gestapo found out he was there. For eight wild weeks "The White Rabbit" (as he was known to his home office) scuttled about France from rendezvous to rendezvous, with the German police breathing down his neck...
Once the Gestapo got advance word of a rendezvous, and lay in wait for him, but Yeo-Thomas spotted a police car in the neighborhood, and shied away. Several times a day he changed his hat, his scarf, or put a peg in his heel to alter his manner of walking. Yeo-Thomas and his associates managed to keep the Resistance from collapse...