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Outside Rome's Viminale Palace (seat of the Government) a huge crowd of paper-hatted, overalled workers and homeless war veterans shivered patiently in the first chill of approaching winter. Inside, spokesmen sought to air their grievance: 30,000 laborers had been discharged that morning from public-works projects...
...Washington's left-wing Democratic Congressman de Lacy: "The last of the great Roosevelt spokesmen is gone from the Cabinet...
WASHINGTON--Four prominent Negro spokesmen demanded tonight that the 80th Congress refuse to seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in January because of his acknowledged membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to block Negro suffrage in the South...
...missiles' most likely origin: Peenemünde, former V-bomb base on Germany's Soviet-occupied Baltic coast. Swedish Army spokesmen knew little beyond the fact that they were fired with a new type of weapon. But a picture released by the Army last week finally convinced all the papers (except the Communist) that the rockets were real, and that a foreign power (i.e., Russia) was using Sweden as a testing ground. Blustered Stockholm's Social Democratic Morgantidningen: "Intrusiveness must not be allowed to continue...
Rehearsal for Trouble. Arab spokesmen said they would not sit with Jews. In Palestine, they had instituted a boycott against Jewish merchants, with heavy fines for noncompliance. In New York, Arabs began moving to put the Palestine question on the agenda of the September meeting of U.N.'s General Assembly (in which the Arab states have five votes). That might well be the point at which Russia enters the game as the champion of Islam, a role Moscow has been quietly rehearsing for the past two years...