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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheered as Viscount Swinton belabored him with "We suffer not from an act of God, but the inactivity of Emanuel." Shinwell got a bomb threat, and Scotland Yard put four constables around his small house in Tooting. Tooted Mrs. Shinwell: "Let them try to harm him!" Would her husband resign (as the Tory press had demanded and some Laborites had privately suggested)? Said Mrs. Shinwell: "I don't see why. I should like to see the man who could do the job better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Panorama by Candlelight | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...term as members, but not as officers of the Student Council," Campbell said last night. With the post war organization well back on its feet and the new elective system operating smoothly, Kuhn and I both feel that now is the most propitious and graceful time to resign," he added. The resignations will become effective immediately after the new Council elections, slated two weeks hence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campbell, Kuhn Step Down as Houses Nominates; Hanford Approves Solicitation for Famine Relief | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

Shinwell was hit by blasts from the Laborite press, as well as by demands to resign in the Conservative papers. He had only one press defender: London's Communist Daily Worker (it blamed the Tories). London's Daily Herald, staunch friend of the Labor Government, severely took the Cabinet to task for failing to keep the public informed of the developing crisis. Said the Herald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blackout | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Resign! Resign!" shouted-Tory members when Shinwell rose to defend himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blackout | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...much an unfederated Soviet republic as Yugoslavia. The UB (security force) is modeled after (and trained by) Russia's MVD. The chief is Stanislaw Radkiewicz, former schoolteacher and longtime Communist. When his assistant, Stanislaw Vachowicz, a Socialist, complained of the UB's activities, he was forced to resign. When Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski, Socialist stooge of the Communists, protested about the UB in Cabinet meetings, he was told to mind his knitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Free Election | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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