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...better appraisal of the new, much-touted, multi-party government can be given than in the extreme reluctance of the minority interests to enter it. The Kuomintang negotiated for months to bring in the haggling splinter groups. Even after trading had supposedly finished, the small parties were evidently none too happy about their lift to power. Two members of the Social Democrats dropped out of the slate after they had been officially nominated to the supposedly all-powerful State Council...
...Vercheres' Pierre Cardin. There was one absentee (Communist M.P. Fred Rose, jailed in the spy trial). The Liberals claimed that they could count on 125 votes. But it was a hard political fact that the Liberals had a solid majority in the House only with the help of splinter groups and the CCF's 28 seats...
Published in book form, as The Christian Heritage in America (Macmillan; $2), the sermons provide an informal, quickly read handbook of U.S. sectarianism. Methodist Hedley comes close to toppling over backwards in his effort to play no favorites, to find and set forth the essential good in every splinter of Christianity. But the effort is well made and to better purpose than merely striving to please. In opposition to those who would force all Protestants into a Procrustean bed of "unity" (as the Christian Century's fiery Charles Clayton Morrison would), Author Hedley sees no innate evil in sectarianism...
...airborne troops marched quickly down from Aparri. North to meet them pounded in fantrymen of the 37th Division, making ten to 14 miles a day. Commented the 37th's Major General Robert S. Beightler, who was later nicked lightly on the brow by a Jap shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala without a Jap soldier in sight...
...earlier by Contributing Editor Varian Fry, who said on resigning: "After reading your editorial [on Russia] I felt as though I wanted to vomit." Last week Fry found a dish more to his taste. He took over the editorship of Common Sense (which claims over 15,000 circulation) a splinter-leftist monthly whose special recipe for Russia includes a strong-as-curry flavor of skepticism...