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Kala-azar is found in the Mediterranean basin, in India (where it got its name, meaning black disease), China and Brazil. Prewar cases in the U.S. were mostly Lascar seamen or visitors from the Orient. Then scores of U.S. servicemen caught the disease. Many cases may still be lurking in veterans' bloodstreams as "undiagnosed fever." U.S. doctors have been alerted against...
...over the battlefields, U.N. observers spotted the dimmed lights of Albanian truck convoys moving up & down from the border, carrying off the wounded and bringing in reinforcements. Outside a Greek headquarters tent sat forlorn groups of Red prisoners awaiting interrogation. One of them, a former member of the Greek seamen's union, told of his odyssey. He had been recruited by the Communists in France, then shipped on to join the rebels via Prague and Yugoslavia. "What could I do? I had no money, so I joined up," he explained. "Kaipali Grammos" (Grammos once again), said one hardbitten, stunted...
Last week in Marseille, the Communist-dominated World-Federation of Trade Unions created an International Union of Seamen and Dockers, with Harry Bridges as its president. Bridges could not accept the new post in person. He is under indictment for perjury in San Francisco (TIME June 6), and the judge thought it unwise to let him leave the country...
...four-week-old London dock strike was over. This week 15,500 dock workers went back to work and 12,000 troops who had been taking their places returned to their regular duties. Officials of the Communist-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union did what the Labor government was unable to do. They called off their strike as far as British ports were concerned. So the dockers could, without being called "blacklegs," unload the two Canadian ships that had started the trouble...
...were wrong, mind, but we've got to stick together." Ted was trying to explain why he and 15,000 other London dockworkers were on strike. They had refused to work two Canadian ships, the Beaverbrae and the Argomont, involved in a Communist-led Seamen's Union dispute in Canada. British Communists said the ships were "black" ("hot" in U.S. labor jargon), and urged the men to boycott them...