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Whenever Dictator Trujillo's bloodhounds and thugs get too close, his intended victims know that Brazilian Ambassador Jaime de Barros Gomes will do his best to give them sanctuary. Early this year 17 Trujillo foes fought their way to Barros' embassy in Ciudad Trujillo and got asylum. Last month another 13 reached safety there. One day last week four more made a desperate...
...front. Late in 1944 he reported that the Russians were planning a huge winter offensive, accurately predicted that it would crush the Nazis' Eastern armies. Hitler raged that Gehlen's report was "the greatest bluff since Genghis Khan," shouted that he should be sent to a lunatic asylum. Replied Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian: "Then send me there with...
...their sovereignty been flouted in the eyes of the world, but that Israel was treating them like gullible fools. Nor were they pleased by a gratui tous reference in the Israeli note to "numerous Nazis" living in Argentina. It is true that ex-Dictator Juan Peron had granted asylum to many Nazis; the present government does not enjoy being reminded of the sins of its predecessors...
...work and play. It is the city where Mazzini plotted the independence of a unified Italy, where Karl Marx labored through 34 years to create Communism, where Sun Yat-sen planned the death of the Manchu Empire and the birth of the Chinese Republic. Historically, London has always given asylum to political exiles and revolutionaries, and the Africans are no exceptions-even though much of their plotting is in effect against Britain itself, or at least against the British colonial rule of their countries...
...will, vain attempts to please. Author Sarraute puts them under a microscope and painstakingly focuses and refocuses it till they are seen absolutely clearly but magnified a hundred fold. The character-specimens are so hypersensitive to each passing emotion that in real life they would probably need to seek asylum - or take up writing New Realist novels on their own. But Author Sarraute's skillful pressing on the neurotic nerve is bound to awaken shocks of recognition in the persevering reader, suggesting, among other things, that no man is a hero to his subconscious...