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...would not be necessary to have a coup d'état or a civil war for De Gaulle to return. Constitutionally, President of the Republic Auriol can invite any Frenchman to form a Government. De Gaulle will make a condition of his return that the Constitution give greater authority to the executive (or that the Assembly be dissolved after voting him emergency powers). Main points of the policy he would put into effect...
...arrests were accompanied by a rat-a-tat fire of Moscow-inspired Groza decrees: drastic shake-up of the Ministry of Industry to insure adherence to Communist economics; virtual nationalization of industry; a budget cut to speed the purge of "unreliable" civil servants; an order empowering shop committees to dictate a purge of industrial employees; transfer of the best Rumanian Army corps to the Communist-run Ministry of Interior; purge of several thousand Army officers; an order that peasants must thresh their grain in the presence of Government officials to prevent widespread hoarding...
...plant, its production, its people's health and morale, and its governmental services, has been threatened with total defeat by civil disturbances, aided, equipped, and protected by Greece's northern, Communist-controlled neighbors. . . . We can note without surprise the cynical and barefaced coup d'état in Hungary...
...which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern tribesmen, thinks the army exists only to suppress tribesmen, fears ambitious officers may attempt a coup d'état. He said recently: "Since the days of Reza Shah,* every private thinks he can become a dictator." But the tribesmen concluded an uneasy truce with the central Government, surrendered a few beloved rifles as a token of good will. Only the Kurds in the north still refused to relinquish their arms...
...Private political armies are now frantically acquiring arms for an emergency. The strength of each in arms already acquired may be seen from the following gradation: PVO, Red Guard, Red Flag, Red Shirt, Galon, Red Peacock. The Dobama Tat (Ba Sein's private army) has just been formed, and has started collecting arms. So has the Police Union (reason mysterious), according to a secret information source...