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Half a million Parisians, valises in hand, jostled aboard 257 special trains to leave the capital for the biggest Whitsun weekend in history. Newspaper headlines, which intrigued but did not deter the holiday-goers, reported new macabre events in Algeria-and the bustling efforts of politicians to find France a new Premier...
...midnight, in the middle of the annual three-day Whitsun holiday migration, the first important railroad strike since 1926 hit Great Britain. Seeking better pay, about 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen left their jobs on the nationalized railroads. Rejecting government appeals to stay on the job, the strikers ground all regular trains to a halt...
...young West German republic had made a heartening display of nerve. Like their "Youth Rally" in Berlin last Whitsun, the Communists' "resistance day" was a sodden fizzle...
...Communists may or may not have intended to carry out their wild Whitsun threats. The commanders of the Western occupation armies took no chances. By effectively organizing the forces at their disposal, they served notice on the Reds that the Communist youth was not going to take over Berlin. By the time the Communist demonstration started, West Berlin's 13,000 policemen were fully prepared for trouble, 8,000 U.S., British and French troops were alerted in their barracks...
...through Whitsun weekend, before rationing went into effect, there was a frantic scurry to stock up from pushcart peddlers and any stores that were open. In London's famed Petticoat Lane, 50,000 men and women surged around the Jewish street market, bought an estimated 500,000 coupons' worth of clothing...