Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for Remembrance. Next morning Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew off from Chengtu. His plane bypassed Kunming, capital of Yunnan. There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...happened in New Zealand last fortnight, and it happened again last week in Australia: the ruling Socialist party was decisively thrown...
...Last week, in shirtsleeves and summer dresses, some 5,000,000 Australians went to the polls (voting is compulsory; slackers can be fined up to $5). They gave the combined Liberal and Country parties a clear majority of at least 27 seats (by incomplete count) in the new House of Representatives. Labor seemed sure of at least 46 seats out of a total of 123. In the victorious coalition the Liberals represented the professional and business classes; the Country Party the farmers. In the past these groups had not always cooperated. But against socialism they had a common front...
...Last week, while the House of Commons staged a full-fledged debate over whether Mr. Cube constituted plain advertising or political electioneering (British law requires that all electioneering expenses must be made public), Mr. Cube turned up in another incarnation. His sponsors distributed free some 500,000 sets of Mr. Cube dice, neatly boxed in a miniature sugar carton together with rules for a new game called TATE & STATE. Each of Tate's dice has one of the letters S T A t E and a portrait of Mr. Cube on one of its six sides. The rules...
...political attention of Britain was focused last week on Bradford, a sooty textile city in Yorkshire, where Britain's Labor government faced probably its last major test before next year's general elections. It was the 35th by-election since 1945 in which the Labor government was out to defend a parliamentary seat against the Conservatives; it proved to be Labor's 35th straight victory...