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...Berlin's municipal elections this week showed an opposite trend: the Socialists lost ground; the Christian Democratic Union gained. Berliners agreed with staunch Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter: they would fight the Reds whether they got Allied arms...
...buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice was shrill and slightly cockney. While indubitably a born writer, he was not in the least an esthete -indeed, he compared Esthete Proust's Remembrance of Things Past to "a 20-year-old store catalogue." Though a staunch socialist and avid student of political economy, he considered Karl Marx "the worst type of bore," and he summed up the Soviet image of the revolutionary worker as a "pithacoid Proletarian, dishevelled and semi-nude...
Balinese had been staunch supporters of Indonesian nationalism, conducted guerrilla war against the Dutch up to the signing of the first U.N.-sponsored Indonesian-Dutch accord in 1948. At that time 800 young Balinese rebels surrendered and the guerrilla war ended on Bali. The Dutch sentenced the guerrillas to criminal terms ranging from ten to 15 years in prison; they were released last year when Indonesia achieved full independence...
...strong liberals, a conservative, and a staunch supporter of "The Vital Center" will open the fifth year of Law School Forums tonight with a discussion of "The Future of the American Liberal...
Many Republicans had hoped for a strong state administration ticket to bolster the party in outlying districts, and were disappointed when Coolidge and Ayer gained the nomination for governor and attorney general respectively. Ayer won over Fingold, famous for smashing the Revere rackets four years ago; even staunch Republicans admit, off the record, that Fingold would have strengthened the ticket immeasurably. Democrats, incidentally, are pointing to this case as an example of discrimination on the part of Republican primary voters...