Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What this means, most of the French union workers know. Last week, where secret strike votes were held, the rank & file voted against striking. In the northern coal fields, where 200,000 miners were out at the time of France's acutest need for coal, some thousands of men shouldered their way past Communist pickets and resumed their work...
...some polling places children presented the proxies of their parents, servants those of their masters. Premier Chang Chun himself had to scold the curious who pressed around to watch him write his choice: "This isn't right. We must vote in secret." But, as the Premier added, it was "the first time." Chinese hoped for improvement. Said scholarly, bespectacled Tseng Chi, head of the Chinese Youth Party: "Perhaps six years from now, at the next general election, we'll know more...
...parties know it will come. One Socialist M.P. told me: "We provide nearly all the government's support; the Communists have all the power." The Socialists do have six cabinet ministers, including Premier Joseph Cyrankiewicz. But the Communists manage the ministries that matter. They control the army, the secret police, education, military courts (where the significant trials are held), foreign trade, and Poland's entire economic life...
...building its strength for that eventual struggle by weakening everything else in Poland. A scientist put it to me: "All Polish life is being lowered to the Russian level by the law of connected vessels."† A prime factor in the Red drive for more & more power is the secret police, which last week had its 1947 budget of $170 million upped to $230 million...
...said, and waved at a woman in black sitting on the far side of the courtyard, where she commanded a view of every entry. A girl halfway across the court said the same thing. I asked if she were the concierge and the girl answered: "That is what the secret police call her." When I got to the beady-eyed woman herself, she gave me the number...