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Taft made it clear that he was not doing this out of any sympathy for Dean Acheson. Obviously, the Republicans were worried about more practical considerations. They feared that the Ives resolution, whether Ives intended it so or not, suggested a Republican sitdown strike in the face of war. Since Harry Truman, and not the Republicans, would pick the next Secretary, they wondered what kind of man the nation was apt to get. Most talked of possibilities: Chief Justice Fred Vinson, ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, Defense Deputy Secretary Bob Lovett, John Foster Dulles, Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman. In Republican eyes...
...last month, at a Bavarian political convention, a long-nosed German politician delivered a scathing attack on the occupation authorities of the western zones. He ridiculed Allied imports as "chicken feed," accused the British of "pilfering," and urged sitdown strikes. Last week, Dr. Johannes Semmler got his comeuppance from the U.S. and British occupation commanders. He was summarily dismissed from his post as executive director of economics for Bizonia...
...pretend it is not failing. But once you get outside Athens, you realize that the situation is the worst it has been since October 1944 when the Germans left. The Greek Government, the high command, the Army and the people are carrying out a sort of mass psychological "sitdown strike"; the Communist-led guerrillas are not in the grip of this self-induced inertia...
...Sitdown Walkout. At last, Baruch accepted a Canadian amendment to send the report back to a working committee with instructions to pay due heed to the U.S. "principles," but to bring the phrasing into harmony with the Assembly's disarmament resolution-a document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...
...Street. De Gasperi did not exaggerate the danger. A factory strike in Turin duplicated the general sitdown of 1922 which ushered in Mussolini. In Milan a jobless mob beat up municipal and police officials, and in Florence rowdies cut off the telephone central. Communist-dominated strikers at Mantua set up Soviet-like cells, prevented citizens from moving about unless they had passes signed by strike leaders...