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...bull-necked veteran in a heavy black overcoat leaped forward and tried to wrest the rifle from the nearest cop. Another gendarme smashed his rifle butt into the attacker's face. Thousands of throats roared defiance of the police and the Government. Belgium, the European belligerent to recover most rapidly after the war, last week was having a bonus-hungry veterans' riot...
...first nonverbal reaction was "civil disobedience." Arab workers in Palestine walked out in a twelve-hour general strike. Diehard pan-Arabs called for a jihad, or holy war, to wrest back Palestine from the infidel. In Jerusalem, the Arab temper flared most angrily. A mob surged from the Mosque of Omar, shouted "Death to the Americans and British!" and stoned a column of Tommies. They fell back before British batons and a sudden heavy rainstorm. Tanks rumbled up to the Damascus Gate. The 100,000 British troops in the Holy Land were alerted...
...powerful C.I.O. United Auto Workers were ready to fight. They already had plans for an assault on Detroit to wrest an industry-wide 30% wage increase. Fortified with a $4,000,000 war chest, they had named General Motors as the first target of their well-planned offense (see BUSINESS...
...about the chaos in Italy, the policy toward Franco, the fate of the Poles? "The American people wonder about our policy in the Far East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with the British and Russians in their desire to keep China weak? . . . As we wrest the Pacific islands from Japan at such cost in American blood, do we retain them or return them to the various claimant nations...
...briefing new ones, getting his fresh supply of planes ready for action. By Sept. 28 the Jap was at Ioribaiwa, only 32 miles from Port Moresby. MacArthur, his chief of staff Major General Richard K. Sutherland (a pilot himself), Australian General Blamey and Kenney fixed on a plan: to wrest control of the air, despite hell and high mountains, by blasting the Japs out of Buna and far-off Lae and Salamaua, the bases from which Buna was supplied...