(6 of 10)
5. Outlawing the Communist Party.
41. Still unrepresented in the French government at year's end was the party that won the biggest vote in the last municipal elections, the:
1. Communists. 4. Radicals.
2. Popular Republicans. 5. R.P.F.
3. Socialists.
42. Municipal elections in Britain, meanwhile, had resulted in:
1. A surprising victory for Conservatives.
2. Further gains for the Labor Party.
3. A Communist gain of 112 seats.
4. The emergence of a strong new party —the British Union.
5. A smashing defeat for Liberals.
43. The main objective of the British Minister for Economic Affairs was to:
1. Increase British exports.
2. Import more from Canada and less from the U.S.
3. Decrease the hours a man will work each week.
4. Support Winston Churchill's plan for economic recovery.
5. Increase the production of automobiles and airplanes.
44. The "grave indiscretion" which forced Chancellor of the Exchequer Dalton to resign from the British Cabinet was:
1. Betting on horse races.
2. Patronizing a black-market restaurant.
3. Using his government information in wool speculation.
4. Sending money out of the country to his son in the U.S.
5. Letting budget secrets leak to the press.
45. In nationalizing the railroads, the Laborite government gave shareholders, in exchange for about $4 billion worth of British railway shares:
1. An equal amount of new gilt-edged securities bearing 3 % interest, guaranteed by the government.
2. Lifetime passes on all railroads.
3. Stock certificates guaranteeing pro rata shares of earnings until 1968.
4. About 1 billion pounds in cash, the rest in no-par common stock.
5. Government bonds bearing interest rates on a sliding scale, depending on an individual's holdings.
46. Deposed as Rumania's king, Michael I was met in Switzerland by his intended bride:
1. Princess Maria Hohenlohe of Bizonia.
2. Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.
3. Princess Helen of Tuscany.
4. Princess Eugenie of Saxony-Thuringia.
5. Princess Adelaide of Monaco-Ville.
Africa and the Far East
47. For the first time in the nation's history, a national election was held in November in:
1. Indonesia. 4. Japan.
2. Tibet. 5. Rhodesia.
3. China.
48. Meanwhile, in China, the Communists:
1. Were driven back into Mongolia.
2. Captured Nanking.
3. Captured Shanghai.
4. Were winning the Civil War.
5. Attacked U.S. naval installations at Tsingtao.
49. Mahatma Gandhi broke the last fast before his assassination on condition that the Moslems be guaranteed freedom to do all but one of the following:
1. Worship. 4. Intermarry with Hindus.
2. Travel. 5. Keep their own houses.
3. Earn a livelihood.
Canada and Latin America
50. Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay, the first South American to win a Nobel Prize in medicine, was an Argentine who had:
1. Fled as a refugee from Europe.
2. Been fired from the faculty of the University of Buenos Aires by Perón.
3. Threatened to move to the U.S.
4. Discovered penicillin.
5. Supported the Perón government.