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South Amboy was bitter. Only six weeks before, Mayor Leonard had written to Washington protesting further shipment of explosives through his port. Two weeks before, the Coast Guard had ordered munitions shipments at South Amboy limited to a modest 500 pounds a load, had allowed this big shipment only because of previous agreements. Said Mayor Leonard: "This was supposed to be the last...
...French and native troops already locked in battle with the Indo-Chinese Communists. (The money had long been available in the $75 million that Congress had pressed on the Administration seven months ago for containment of Communism in Asia.) Within a few weeks the first shipment of tactical aircraft should be on its way for close support of anti-Communist troops...
...owner of a store within two blocks of the President's house received a bootleg shipment of arms a week ago. He was promptly visited by three of the Yale black marketeers, who tried unsuccessfully to coerce him into raising his prices...
...Cherbourg, where the American Importer was unloading the first shipment of arms to France, things were even quieter. A drab little female Communist turned up in the rain at the stevedores' hiring hall to hand out some leaflets urging the dockers not to unload imperialist weapons. A man in a raincoat tried to make a speech. The dockers paid no attention. They had already discussed the issue; only 21 of Cherbourg's 415 dockers had voted against working the ships with U.S. aid. "Cherbourg's example," said Defense Minister René Pleven as the last...
...233ric Joliot-Curie was the weirdest of the three. France, the democratic nations' chief ally on the Continent, receiver of nearly four and a half billion U.S. dollars since the war's end, which had solemnly signed the Atlantic pact and was last week receiving its first shipment of U.S. arms, maintained an avowed Communist Party member as the chief of its atomic-energy program...