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...promised schedule, increased the heat and frequency of criticism leveled at Gottwald and the Kremlin. The swing away from Gottwald reached a peak when the Social Democrats, by secret ballot, bounced their pro-Communist leader Zdenek Fierlinger out of his job and installed Bohumil Lausman in his place. No rabid antiCommunist, Lausman nevertheless believes that Czechoslovakia should come first. The seams of Gottwald's National Front began popping rivets...
...nation that bases its entire political structure on a shifting and complex mass of minor parties, any coordinated government becomes a highly dubious proposition. France is the home of such small fry. Its National Assembly is composed of every political shade from rabid red to gouty blue. M. Schuman must compose these squabbling factions if he even dreams of a successful regime. His only real hope lies in the tremendous mandate of 412 votes to 184 awarded him by the Assembly...
...Arthur Rank and his band of studio radicals have long held that a noteworthy movie needs only a good story, not a raft of magenta sunsets, daring cleavages or rabid mobs. This conservatism, marking the difference between British efforts and their Hollywood counterparts, is displayed in "Tawny Pipit," and proves once again that the designation "rank" lauds as well as castigates. This story of a rare bird and its effects on the nearby town is consistently first-rate...
...Herter Committee returned with a healthy and wholehearted respect for Europe's Reds. The committeemen had seen them at work. Ohio's Thomas Jenkins, once a rabid isolationist, had seen Communism's hard Yugoslav face at Trieste. Considerably shaken, Jenkins wrote: "This terrorism is an example of the methods which Communists will employ to extend their doctrines...
...City's backward school system, remains skillfully camouflaged. With mournful cries of political domination by a clique of "Tory Rowers," certain bureaucrats hope to divert attention from their incompetence and, by injecting bigotry in the place of analysis, securely fasten themselves to the gravy train. But no amount of rabid oration or pretended martyrdom can totally obscure the indictment against a school program that places education on a political basis and stumbles along in a thirty-year...