Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...federation by 1949. Republican Premier Mohamed Hatta liked it. But Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook refused to consider the plan, told U.S. Committee Member Coert du Bois that he had no business submitting it in the first place. Then the U.S.-Australian plan leaked to the press. The Dutch announced that "in view of the publication of the strictly confidential document*. . . The Netherlands delegation has requested instructions from The Netherlands government." They "discontinued" negotiations "for the time being...
Premier Antonin Zapotocky (TIME, June 21) announced plans for further purges of the army,* the courts, the schools, the libraries, and the economy ("to erase the last vestige of capitalism" and establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest...
...Richmond. No sooner had he stepped off the train than an enthusiastic city committeewoman rushed up, bussed him on the cheek and burbled later: "I was just so happy I hardly knew what I was doing. I doubt if the governor even remembers it." Gallantly Dewey told a press conference: "Do you think I could forget a kiss from such a lady...
...Gossip of a different kind was reported in the Hearst press. Mariella Lotti, an Italian movie actress allegedly long enamored of Michael but kept irom him by history ("war is contemptuous of love"), was reported seriously considering going into a nunnery. "Will she say to the world, farewell?" throbbed the New York Journal-American. "Will she take the last step and enter?" At week's end, neither she nor her press-agent was sure...
With radio ruffles and press flourishes the Soviet propaganda machine last week made the grandiloquent most of a Soviet decision to halve the reparations balances owed the Soviet Union by Rumania and Hungary. Moscow papers coupled the announcement with further furious attacks on the European Recovery Program, suggested that Moscow might soon devise an ERP of her own for "friendly neighbors...