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...Since 1889, the first Cleveland Administration, when the Commissioner of Agriculture became Secretary and a member of the Cabinet. * Of a splinter sect, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter, Day Saints, which broke off from Brigham Young, refused to follow him to his promised land in Utah and ultimately settled down in Independence...
Last week, Comrade di Vittorio and his CGIL faced a rising rival, the CISL-Confederazione Italiana Sindacate Lavoratori (Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions). CISL (pronounced chisel) started growing two years ago as a Christian Democrat splinter of the Communist union, has grown steadily and courageously, chiseled deeply into Red trade union strength. Last month the Communists called a waterfront strike against U.S. arms shipments. CISL unionists, under police guard, broke it by unloading American weapons at Naples...
Contempt & Terror. CISL's leadership has had rough going. When the first Christian Democrat splinter appeared in CGIL, Comrade di Vittorio expelled its leaders with contempt, then applied terror...
Europe's Face. Britain's basic problem is that the government is spending more for welfare services . . . than the country can currently afford . . . In France the fundamental problems are political, social and psychological, rather than economic . . . Its political setup encourages weak governments, splinter parties, selfish factionalism . . . Whether France would fight unitedly against Russia if a hot war should come is doubtful . . . Italy is desperately poor...
...Splinter groups meanwhile formed in the ranks. The United Nations Council, the World Federalists, and the Students for Democratic Action all organized within the League for Democracy. The entire League concerned itself with the Cambridge elections, the Marshall Plan Rally, and the activities of the meat packers' union...