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...Affaire 'Ardy" wore on, public sympathy swung heavily to Hardy's side. Paris' stuffy Court of Assizes (where Pétain and Laval had been tried) was crammed with veterans of the Resistance-and with their memories. Said one René Hardouin, owner of a coffee stall at a Paris railway station, who had sabotaged railroads under Hardy: "I don't know whether he denounced anyone. When they torture you, you give away anything, after a time. But Hardy is a hero, anyway." At the end of the trial Hardy, tired and unsmiling throughout, made...
Since 1945 La Prensa had stood on the editorial opinion that fanatics who had spent 16 years in illegal activity would never be fit to govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...
Winter is no bargain, either. Its snowstorms, which the dauntless U.S. postal service defies, stall the trains TIME depends on for prompt U.S. delivery; its uncertain weather and icing conditions ground the planes delivering TIME'S pictures to the printer and the film we use for printing our International editions abroad. Once it trapped a correspondent we desperately wanted to get in touch with for a solid month on a tiny Atlantic island...
...policy-makers last week gave Bernard Baruch a clear directive on the course to take as U.S. member of the atomic commission. If Russia really cooperates in U.N. and the peace, the U.S. will gradually turn her atomic secrets and know-how over to international control. If Russia stalls, the U.S. will stall in the commission-and keep right on making bombs at Oak Ridge (see SCIENCE...
This meant that the Treasury will not be able to sell any silver. Chances are that the Silver bloc, if it does not gain its objectives, will stall until Congress adjourns. It will rely on the crippling shortage to soften up opponents at the next session...