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...Governor of his native Kwangtung Province. There, he would be able to get some first-hand experience in governing a province-which might prove quite a job, since it has been reported that there is a separatist movement in Kwangtung. He also might find time to squelch smuggling...
Rumors of war flew about Germany and Italy last week. Russian tanks, they said, were massed on the Oder; 2,000,000 U.S. and British troops were in Italy (actual total: 55,000). U.S., British and Russian authorities did their best to squelch this nonsense. In Berlin, a Russian officer, a certain Major Savaliev, went on the air with the most interesting reason that there would be no war. Said...
...Baruch plan for international atomic energy control "until the world is in a more peaceful state." By throwing this idea upon the table as a last futile barrage against the Lilienthal confirmation, Taft shocked many people, even his Republican colleagues. It is clear, however, that the Taft proposal to squelch the American atomic plan is a type of thinking characteristic of the present power conflict between the United States and Russia...
...recently decreed an end to the extravagant spending of well-heeled and politically wise candidates. The Council bases its decision on the supposition that any man handing out costly hoopla places the election on a plane far above the financial reaches of most students. Although a desire to squelch the inequalities of big-time campaigning is laudable, an action condemning any outlay of money for publicity tends to limit a candidate's acquaintance with the electorate and risks a decay of rising interest in the Council...
Police last week were called out to squelch a one-hour riot which broke out among a crowd of 1,000 on the campus of Rome University. Ten people were injured. The original occasion of the gathering: a "forgive & forget ceremony"^ between former fascists and antifascists, which was part of a series of Sunday goodwill meetings...