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That Trotsky Again. Millions of Frenchmen scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...
...feast, eight gendarmes walked up to the table and told all royalists that, if they did not leave at once, they would be considered traitors. So they left. Two nights later, the Communists attacked the gendarmerie post and shot all eight of them. Three days after that, a rightist band came across the river in boats, attacked the town, killed 16 people, and burned their houses. But when they started back across the river, the Communists were waiting for them with machine guns and killed about...
...asked George to come back from his wartime exile. But they have heard no inspiring words from him since his return last September. For days after his restoration, George paced the floor of his sparsely furnished, silk-paneled study, trying to find a way of broadening Greece's rightist Government under Dino Tsaldaris. When Tsaldaris and the centrists refused to compromise, advisers urged the King to intervene. But at this point, "he who does not laugh" was back in character. Said he sadly: "Ohi-no. I am a constitutional monarch. I can do nothing." The civil war continued...
...Rightist hatchetmen whom their pro-German leader, Colonel Georges Grivas, designated with the algebraic symbol "x" (for reasons known only to himself...
Patel would not walk alone if he could help it. He was obviously trying to base the new Indian nation on a compromise of the communal issue, a mildly rightist line in the labor split-plus full use of the police power (which Gandhi deplored but Organizer Patel did not). When the British Cabinet Mission reminded Patel last spring that he might be sent to jail again for defying the Raj, Patel replied calmly: "My bags are packed." That is the way he understands the game, and that is the way he plays it, in & out of power...