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...years, Greeks and Turks have intermittently warred on each other. The Greeks massacred 20,000 Moslems in April 1821, and shortly thereafter proclaimed their independence from Turkey after 400 years of subjection. But the two nations were still at war 100 years later. During the 1920s, a wary rapprochement began. The two powers exchanged their national minorities; in one of the great mass migrations of history 2,000,000 Greeks quit Turkey...
...1920s Schumacher, despite his missing arm, was a plump and healthy Socialist who enjoyed good food and the company of actresses, read detective stories as well as the turgid literature of Socialism, and liked to sit up late in a coffeehouse arguing politics. He early decided to remain a bachelor. "I am married to politics," he would say. From the beginning, he goaded Germany's older, more cautious Socialists. At the first weak rumblings of Naziism, in 1921, Schumacher organized young street fighters to combat the new evil, but the old Socialists would not get behind the movement...
...Marxist notion of violent class revolution, embraced instead the doctrine of democratic evolution through parliamentary means. ". . . Marxism is no catechism for us," he said. "It is nevertheless the method to which we owe more than any other sociological method in the world." Unlike the ripsnorting old Sozis of the 1920s with their red caps and red scarves, the Schumacher Socialists of today have lost their enthusiasm for all-out nationalization of "all means of production, distribution and exchange" and advocate a more tepid Socialism like the Swedes and the British Laborites. They want some nationalization, some private ownership. They advocate...
...mysteries, one of the most durable was the case of Caravaggio's missing Musicians. Seventeenth-century contemporaries glowingly described the masterpiece. But though modern experts looked high & low, they could find no record of the painting-much less the painting itself. Once in the early 1920s, an Italian thought he spotted it in the col lection of Florence's Uffizi Palace; it turned out to be the work of an admirer. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art proudly announced that Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Musicians had turned up and been identified beyond...
...others-even of her husband. In the rarefied atmosphere at SHAPE she has seen no reason to be anybody but the same Mamie Eisenhower who was a belle in Denver (everyone said she really looked a lot like Lillian Gish), the wife of an obscure young subaltern in the 1920s (she still plays piano by ear at parties, as she did in the old garrison days), and a woman who has always managed to bridge the years with old friends. At 55, her figure is still good; she stands about 5 ft. 4 in., and her weight...