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That attitude is shared even by members of the country's community of more than 100,000 Argentine citizens of British extraction, descendants of the generations of British traders and technicians who helped build modern Argentina. Those Anglo-Argentines have long formed a special, privileged class in the country, with their own schools, hospitals, charities, churches and genteelly British ways of life. They congregate at institutions like the Hurlingham Club, a vast social and recreational complex in the heavily British Buenos Aires suburb of Hurlingham. The club has five polo fields, two swimming pools, a golf course, cricket pitch...
...officials in Buenos Aires are asking them to register at the Swiss embassy, which is handling London's interests. "We're just counting our flock," says one diplomat. So are the Argentines: plain-clothes policemen are reported to be conducting a census of Britons in Buenos Aires. Anglo-Argentines are feeling suddenly vulnerable in a country where weeks ago it was a mark of status to be British. Says one nervous Anglo-Argentine: "Everybody's scared. We've never been faced before with this situation of having to separate our two very strong loyalties. Today...
...young daughter. Follett makes good use of a taut if predictable double subplot to forward Feliks' machinations and throw Cabinets, kings and boudoirs into turmoil. The denouement, in which all the major characters and half the British constabulary descend on Walden Hall for the signing of the Anglo-Russian pact, is one of Follett's finest, with a staccato performance by the deceptively cherubic young Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston's connivance is echoed in a scene at 10 Downing Street, in which Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his advisers pass "the Balkans around...
...from its young Soviet audience. "I liked it a lot because it was realistic. It was authentic," said Misha, 15, a Moscow high school student. Foreign students were equally enthusiastic. "I couldn't believe it was made in Russia," said a 14-year-old American boy at the Anglo-American School in Moscow...
...Renaissance literature, Rodriguez, 36, is a writer of rare precision and grace. His new book, Hunger of Memory (Godine; $13.95), is a perceptive and touching memoir about growing up in an immigrant family and about the emotional costs of studying his way to a secure place in the Anglo intellectual hierarchy. In the book, Rodriguez bears knowledgeable and compelling witness against America's recent methods of educating the underprivileged, and especially against bilingual education...