Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's coalition government fell apart. Deserted by the right wing of his Cabinet, Premier Ferruccio Parri resigned. To Italy's fractious factions he addressed a warning...
Looking ahead to the Constituent Assembly elections next spring, the right wing feared lest it lose prospective votes by remaining in an unpopular coalition. First the Liberals, then the Christian Democrats and Labor Democrats walked out on the Actionists, Socialists and Communists. The six parties seemed irreparably parted. Cried Benedetto Croce's Liberals: "The era of antifascism should end, giving way to a new, peaceful constructive era of post-fascism. . . ." Protested Christian Democrat leader Alcide de Gasperi: "Fascism will never happen again. Never." Growled Pietro Nenni's Socialists: Italian reaction, egged on by Anglo-American capital, was plotting...
Design of the equipment to carry out these activities was the task given to the Harvard Radio Research Laboratory when it was secretly set up in March, 1942, as the chief research center on radar countermeasures. Operating in a converted wing of the huge Biological Laboratory, the R.R.L., which employed some 800 technicians and spent more than 15 million dollars on research, developed more than 150 anti-radar devices for the Allied armed forces...
...Army against Japan) were an explosive political force. The "Huks" had fought, 80,000 strong, against the Japs. By last week, still armed, they had become the heart of a loose, new peasant political party, the Democratic Alliance, and they were being loudly whooped up in the U.S. left-wing press as the hope of the Philippines...
Grumbled the left-wing Nation last week: "American teachers might be better off in many cases if they went to Japan...