News Quiz, Mar. 3, 1947

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2. Joseph T. McNarney. 5. Walter Bedell Smith.

3. Lucius D. Clay.

52. In January, as another step toward "preventing any fur ther agression by Germany," a military alliance was ar ranged between:

1. England and Russia. 4. France and Italy.

2. England and France. 5. Czechoslovakia 3. France and Russia. and Poland.

53. For imprisoning Archbishop Stepinac, Yugoslavia's Tito and most of his officials were:

1. Branded "postwar fascists" by the U.S. State Department.

2. Censured by the U.N. Security Council, barred from final meetings of the Paris Peace Conference.

3. Excommunicated by the Catholic Church.

4. Mobbed by Belgrade war veterans, most of them Catholics.

5. Personally rebuked by their big boss, Joseph Stalin.

FAR AND MIDDLE EAST

54. Reporting on China, General George C. Marshall bluntly placed the blame for her failure to achieve unity on:

1. The Kuomintang. 4. China's minor parties.

2. The Communists. 5. Russian agents.

3. Extremists in both factions.

55. Haganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi are two of the :

1. Jewish resistance groups which continue to oper ate in Palestine.

2. Important native leaders in the Indian Congress.

3. New Iranian political parties.

4. Russian-backed dictators in the Balkans.

5. Underground newspapers still being distributed by Nazi elements in the Middle East.

LATIN AMERICA

56. Still working to break the stalemate in U.S.-Argentine relations is the U.S. Ambassador to .Argentina:

1. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. 4. John G. Winant.

2. Carlton J. H. Hayes. 5. Norman Armour.

3. George S. Messersmith.

57. And new evidence that a rising tide of Leftism is sweeping Latin America came this winter when Communists south of the Rio Grande did all but one of these:

1. Doubled their vote in Uruguay's recent election.

2. Kept a tight grip on the trade union movement in Mexico, held most of the important posts in the Cuban Confederation of Labor.

S. Overthrew the Liberal Government of President Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, returned ex-President Getulio Vargas to power.

4. Polled 16% of the total vote (at least 800,000 ballots) in Brazil's nationwide election.

5. Won three Cabinet posts in Chile.

AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE NEWS

Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described. 58. Here Keitel, Von Ribbentrop, Frank were hanged and Goring crunched potassium cyanide.

59. Nelson Rockefeller seeks to increase this country's production—and thus her ability to buy U.S. products.

60. A new nation was born here in November; within two years it will be a sovereign power under Wilhelmina.

61. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk charged that police imprisoned 104 non-Communist candidates, murdered 24 others shortly before the national election here.

62. U Aung San led a delegation to London to discuss the British Government's offer to grant self-government to this country.

63. Here France battles the Viet Nam Republic.

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