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...True & Cruel." It was all over at 7 p.m. Although the results would not be announced until next week, no one doubted that the Government had won an overwhelming victory. Said one voter, recalling the "dead elections" of 1935 under the rightist government of "The Colonels": "That was faked too, but compared to this it was harmless. ... In 1935 the Government did not care whether the people voted or not so long as it retained power. Now the Government has adopted the Russian attitude that everyone must vote for the Government...
...Popular Front victory in the 1936 elections was something neither the caciques nor the army-nor the new Fascist Falange-could stomach. An ominous summer of street fights and rumors ended with Francisco Franco's moment-the vast confusion and fury of the Rightist uprising. Then, in Madrid, Barea saw gangsters and whores put on the overalls of "Milicianos," saw Anarchists and Socialists murdering each other and supposed Rightists without trial. He joined tipsy mobs setting churches afire and saw streets ringing with snipers' shots. It was months before the Loyalist Government could control its defenders...
...Life Blood. U.N.'s Persian victory gave hope that it might be able to stop the splitting of another country, Greece. Russian satellite hands on Greece's northern border effectively blocked control by Athens of a large and important part of the country. Choleric Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, a rightist who refused to take moderates into his Government, flew to New York, shouted at the U.N. Security Council: "This situation, whereby a country which has shed so much of its blood for the common struggle [in World War II] is still being drained of its life blood, cannot continue...
...Received some 2,000 guests in the gold and damask halls of the National Palace. ¶Got a ten-gallon Stetson and a cowboy shirt from a Texas delegation headed by Governor-elect Beauford Jester. ¶Received calls from leftist ex-President Cárdenas, rightist ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez and middle-of-the-road ex-President Camacho. ¶Made a big hit with newsmen by holding Mexico's first give& amp; -take presidential press conference, broke another Mexican precedent by starting it at the scheduled time. But he neatly parried all attempts to define his new regime...
...openly urged Poles to vote against the Communist-dominated Government. The Government thundered back: "The Vatican is a friend of the Germans!" Anti-Semitic terrorists circulated stories that the Government had allowed Jews to torture and kill 160 non-Jewish Poles imprisoned in the city of Radom. The extreme rightist underground paper Honor & Fatherland proclaimed that, unless the U.S. and Britain eventually severed relations with the Government, Poland's only hope was a future war between the great powers...