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...Huks calmed down, Magsaysay announced that he was going to police the islandwide elections-an announcement that was greeted by cynical smiles. He went at his apparently hopeless job with a will-and a method. In Pag-asa, he hopped around the country to beagle out phony registrations, restrain the gunnery of rival politicos, and spot the places where his troops were most needed. In one town where preelection killing had broken out, he had the entire police force arrested for murder. In still another, where a Nacionalista candidate had been kidnaped, he jailed the mayor-a Liberal...
...last night," Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N. General Assembly. "I could not sleep because I kept laughing." He bent his white-thatched terrier's head over a typed manuscript, then looked up with a sharp-toothed grin. "Really, even from this rostrum ... I cannot restrain my laughter." There were a few appreciative giggles from Reds in the galleries, but otherwise Vishinsky laughed alone as he gave Russia's answer to the West's dis armament proposals (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS...
...competition," he once said, brings "eventual chaos." But in 1944, the Justice Department decided that Lord McGowan and Du Pont had gone too far in restricting competition. It filed an antitrust action against the two (plus Du Pont's subsidiary, Remington Arms), charging that they had conspired to restrain trade by splitting up markets for a list of goods ranging from Cellophane and rayon to insecticides and synthetic rubber...
...Only 250,000, instead of the expected 2,000,000, had turned out for last fortnight's monster meeting at which the Peróns said yes. Some Peronista chieftains began to complain that too many traditions were being broken too fast and that the Sefiora had better restrain her ambitions for a while. At the last minute, moreover, Argentina's soldiers were reported bridling at the unspeakable thought that if Perón should die, a woman would be commander in chief of the Argentine army...
Main recommendations: !) slow down rearmament and try to negotiate a peaceful settlement with Russia; 2) restrain the "breakneck" pace of U.S. rearmaments; 3) resist German rearmament and Franco Spain's admission to the Atlantic alliance; 4) maintain veto power over any warlike mission of a U.S. bomber using British bases; 5) use more stringent socialist controls to keep down the cost of living in Britain; 6) establish, with Russian participation, a World Mutual Aid Plan (which would have to be largely financed by the wicked, capitalist U.S.) to help underprivileged countries...