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Disarmament First. In his nine-man Cabinet, Plastiras took the four portfolios of War, Navy, Air and Merchant Marine in addition to the Premiership. Most of his Ministers were Liberals; all but one had rightist traditions. The exception: Foreign Minister John Sofianopoulos, 57, who organized Greece's Popular Front party in 1936, visited Russia in 1924 at the invitation of the Russian Government. Not in the Government: representatives of EAM (National Liberation Front), whose fighting arm is ELAS. Places were presumably still open for them...
...Monet-snatcher had no intention of trying to dispose of the picture-he was just settling an old score with the National Museum's Director Augusto da Rocha. A tightfisted administrator (he slashed the museum's staff) and no patron of the local art mart, politically rightist da Rocha has long been at odds with most Argentine artists, who are largely left-of-liberal. The expertly executed theft might prove embarrassing enough to cost...
...demonstrating against the Government's ultimatum ordering guerrilla forces to disarm and disband by Dec. 10. A fortnight ago British Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie had conferred with the EAM guerrilla leader, leftist General Stephanos Saraphis, and the EDES' leader, rightist General Napoleon Zervas. Zervas agreed to disarm his followers. Saraphis would not. General Scobie warned all Greeks: "I am convinced that in many parts of this country freedom of the people does not exist. ... [I am prepared to] stand by the side of the present constitutional Government until it has a national army under its banners...
...death (1925), Wang and Chiang were two of a triumvirate* who inherited the direction of China's revolution. But it was an uneasy partnership. Chiang was a soldier, Wang an intellectual. Chiang inclined to the middle way; Wang was now a leftist, now a rightist. When Chiang drove the Chinese Communists and their Russian advisers out of the Kuomintang and China, Wang again went abroad to rest up and intrigue. Later he made peace with Chiang, returned to China to become president of the Executive Yuan (equivalent to premier) in the Government...
...Gaulle also received new support. France au Combat, a rightist resistance group, which was strongest in the south of France, announced that it was solidly behind the Government. It planned to expand its organization throughout Paris and the provinces, to publish a daily and a weekly paper, to oppose lynchings and private executions of the kind carried out by the Patriotic Militia. Its mottoes: "De Gaulle our President"; "De Gaulle and Order." Most of the Gaullist Cabinet members were reported to have joined the France au Combat group...