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...turned out to be Stanley Spencer's Resurrection, a large and rowdy panorama of an English country graveyard at. the last trump (TIME, May 8). Last week, oldtimers were flooding the London press with protests. Wrote a Daily Telegraph reader: "If the Chantrey trustees, impervious to public opinion, choose to exhibit these abnormal pictures, may I pray their hanging committee may hang beside them...
...passive resistance of the peasants to the socialization of the land, admirable as it is in many ways, is likely to crumble slowly. Tito holds too many trump cards...
...Communist economics expert, fired the first broadside in what the Italian press had dubbed the battle of the lira. Said Pesenti: "Unless the government revises its economic and financial policies radically and immediately, our dear country will plunge into the most frightful economic chaos . . ." Then Minister Pella played his trump cards. He announced 1) an immediate 10% reduction in the controlled price of bread, in answer to Communist alarm cries that as a result of the lira's slump prices would rise; and 2) the purchase in Washington of a little more than $100 million worth of gold...
...said the cost of the ship was too high for its usefulness, that it was an infringement on their "rightful control of strategic bombing." The Navy fought back, citing the fine record of its carriers in the World War II Pacific campaigns. Then the Air Force appeared with its trump card...
...days before election, Communist Boss Gildo Gasperoni produced his trump card. "We expect to bring home 197 Sammarinesi from Genoa, another four or five hundred from the rest of Italy, and 130 who went to France as coal miners. That ought to be enough to swing the election, I think." On election day the expatriates came home with all expenses paid by the Communist-Socialist coalition...