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...killed a member of the EAM. To Britain's Foreign Secretary this punctuation mark was a reminder that Britain's Greek sphere of influence is far from tranquil. The week before, Athens' tumultuous liberation outburst had been cut short when the leftist EAM and the rightist EDES fought it out during the celebration. Score: ten dead; no wounded...
...acted like swine. After that we simply tolerated them until you came." And now they would like things to become normal again. But General de Gaulle is committed to a certain amount of state control of business and the, left keeps pressing for more. A week ago an astute rightist said: the right must vote socialist to keep the Communists out of power. This week the same man said: "The Communists will get out of hand. Let them. Then your Army will have to ask De Gaulle to keep order. He cannot refuse...
...rightist Mouvement de Libération Nationale grew out of the union of three Gaullist groups in southern France. Its military organization, the Corps Francs de la Libération, was second in importance only to the Communist-controlled F.T.P. in the F.F.I...
...speaker was remarkable-the president of China's Legislative Yuan, Sun Fo, moderate, democratic-minded son of China's revolutionary leader, Sun Yatsen. The speech, delivered before the Kuomintang, was even more remarkable-an appeal to the Chungking Government to abandon its rightist position and pursue a more leftist policy...
Cork Trees and Seduction. Count Grandsailles was France's most brilliant statesman. "With the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner the Count would mildly bring out the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, and with the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar...