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Busch, who became Provisional President in July 1937 after the overthrow of Col. David Toro and was elected constitutional head of the country last May, said his dictatorship was neither extreme leftist nor rightist, but "entirely Bolivian" in character...
...more than two years they lived in rebel territory, organizing the peasants to blow up trains, block roads, out communications, and harass rightist front lines...
...Saint's first move was to warn the Thakore Saheb to reform his autocratic government. Ignored, the Saint sent his wife to start a civil disobedience campaign. She was thrown in jail. Meanwhile, the Indian National Congress voted down Gandhi's Rightist candidate for President, elected instead Subhas Chander Bose, a prominent Leftist. Last week Saint Gandhi decided to stop eating. Doctors warned against the fast, but he replied that he was not worth much in insurance. He quickly lost two pounds. His feet puffed up with dropsical swelling. Early this week he was in a desperate condition...
...House last week voted to ham-handed Martin Dies of Texas, Rightist drum major of the Leftist parade, his $100,000 expense money for further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down...
...France has been scarcely on speaking terms with Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Government. Unlike Britain, she has sent no friendly, trade mission to Burgos. Last week, however, France thought the time had come to begin a series of diplomatic flirtations if not an actual marriage. Hawk-beaked Rightist Senator Léon Bérard of the Basses-Pyrenees Department entrained for Burgos from Paris. His trip, he and the French Foreign Office said, was unofficial, but there was no doubt that he had been sent by Premier Edouard Daladier's Government to sound out the possibility...