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Poland. Nine high military staff officers, four of them generals, several of them for mer members of the anti-nazi Polish underground, are on trial, charged with spying for the West. A tenth is in jail. Deportation of "unessential" people from towns to rural areas is causing widespread unrest and desperate efforts to escape (see below). In Warsaw an estimated 40,000 former government workers, doctors, lawyers, and small businessmen have been ordered deported by the Communist police...
...noted that much French communistic ballot strength comes from local unrest and discontent, and does not represent approval of Russia's international ambitions so much as a desire for reform...
...Strikes Are a Crime." On Sunday, Pamplona was calm and its coffeehouses and movies were open for business. As the new week began, Francisco Franco emerged from his closely guarded El Pardo palace on the outskirts of Madrid and for the first time made a public reference to the unrest: "Strikes are a crime . . . This is the law of jungles and primitive societies." He promised loans to farmers to increase production and lower food prices...
First, it is a known fact that over since MacArthur undertook the policy of waging an all-out war in Korea with full intentions of carrying it to the doorstop of Red China, thus risking the danger of precipitating a world war in Asia, there has been much unrest and antagonism among our allies, particularly among the peoples of Western Europe. They felt, and perhaps rightly so, that it was a slap in their face for us to pour so many men and materials into such an insignificant place of no particular strategic value, while they were so badly needed...
...Communists, using loudspeakers, incited 12,000 of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s 80,000 workers into a strike. In Masjid-i-Suleiman strikers asked for a pay rise; at Agha Jari, they wanted control of the A.I.O.C. Transport system. The Reds were concerned only with spreading unrest...