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...Nacionalista Party, but this year he was specifically eliminated from the party slate at Magsaysay's insistence. Senator Recto found a berth on the Liberal slate as a "guest candidate," and set off to barnstorm against his President, whom he called a "dictator" and a "U.S. puppet." Two nights before the election, in a speech at the Manila Harvard Club, he dramatically proclaimed that "Magsaysayism" was the Filipino counterpart of McCarthyism...
...First there was the massive repudiation by Saar voters of France's ten-year rule. Snorted Deputy Jacques Vendrous, De Gaulle's brother-in-law: "France played cards while the Saar was lost." Deputies were also nettled at South Viet Nam's summary rejection of French Puppet Bao Dai, and shocked by the sudden defection of El Glaoui, France's oldest Moroccan ally. Yet none of these reverses vexed the touchy Deputies as much as Edgar Faure's surprise proposal (TIME, Oct. 31) for snap Assembly elections to be held before Christmas. "Grave national responsibilities...
...Socialist carpenter, Kaisen went to the party school in Berlin with Wilhelm Pieck, now puppet President of East Germany, grew up in Bremen's Socialist politics, was clapped into jail by the Nazis, released after two months and ordered to stay out of his city. Kaisen went no farther than the bleak moor, seven miles from Bremen, where the U.S. colonel found...
...chief proponent, Saar Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann and his pro-French Christian People's Party. The pro-Germans made up a word for his supporters-Speckfranzosen, i.e., literally, bacon-Frenchmen; loosely, pro-French for material interests. They jeered at the portly Joho as a longtime French puppet, and threw stones and stink bombs to break up his meetings. Whenever he appeared, crowds were on hand to beset him. When he addressed Brebach steelworkers last week, hecklers crowded outside the hall and yelled "Pfui!" when he left...
Died. Shigeo Odachi, 63, iron-fisted director of the General Affairs Bureau in Japan's puppet Manchukuo government, wartime mayor of Singapore, Home Minister (1944), member of the Diet since 1953; of cancer; in Tokyo...