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Election returns were coming in. Roberts spotted the trend in a precinct report from the onetime "Bloody First" Ward, a Pendergast stronghold. "That's a barbershop on North Main," he said. "They used to vote about 385 to 6 for the machine. Look what they got - only two to one." It was soon clear that the election was in the bag for the Citizens Association, a loose fusion of anti-Pendergast Democrats, yeasty Republicans and independents, held together by the Star's backing. What was left of Old Tom's once mighty machine, now run with little...
Markos' stronghold is the range of the Pindus Mountains, extending like a probing finger from Albania and Yugoslavia into the heart of Greece. In those crags Markos Vafiades can claim to rule. And his influence extends to any rocky slope throughout Greece where armed men may hide beyond the easy reach of troops not anxious to stage a manhunt...
Italian reaction was electric. In Trieste, 30,000 cheering Italians paraded for three miles, ended up on the waterfront to salute the U.S. cruiser Dayton (see cut). In the Red stronghold of Milan, ten truckloads of Communists demonstrated in the cathedral square; Milanese swarmed out against them with boos and catcalls. The Communists needed police protection to get safely away. It was probably the first Communist retreat Milan had seen in months...
These nations need the economic aid embodied in the E.R.P. to be sure but what they need more, is help in combating batting the menace of "militant Communism." He called upon America not to break the bonds of the "North Atlantic Community" saying that this was the stronghold of the ideals of equality and freedom so antithetical to the communist ideology...
...months had passed since Nationalist forces seized Yenan, stronghold of North China's Communists (TIME, March 31). Yenan's fall promised better things to come. But U.S. leaders hemmed & hawed over aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek; inflation and political rivalries gnawed at the morale of his people. Gradually, the initiative passed back to the far-from-whipped Communist armies of Mao Tse-tung...