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Died. Povilas Zadeikis, 70, Minister to the U.S. from Lithuania since 1935; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Like the former representatives from Latvia and Estonia, Zadeikis stayed on after the Soviet Union incorporated the three little countries in 1940 (an act of conquest never recognized...
...life and death of Dr. William Palmer is a sordid, shabby story of a man of natural ability who was never more than a step ahead of his creditors or his latest female conquest, but Graves has achieved the maximum of variety and color by making up accounts of people who knew Palmer and who tell their stories to the invisible narrator. Further, he has written in a remarkable imitation of Victorian style: "If the girl anticipated marriage by granting him what he asked, Palmer at once cooled towards her, as too giddy to be his wife...
...break into that glittery world and call it her own. She made it. Today more and more social climbing is merely the ascent from one suburban foothill to a slightly higher hill ; in Louise's day more dramatic mountaineering was frequent, and her own climb was a veritable conquest of Everest...
...said that in the 1930's he was "very critical" of the Japanese government because of its expansionist policies in China, and associated with many people who shared his opposition to the Japanese conquest of Manchuria and the invasion of China...
...shift from Europe to Asia in recent years is not so much a change of affections as it is a recognition of 1) how well Western Europe has recovered, and 2) how much the area of imminent danger of Communist penetration shifted to Asia, after the Communists completed their conquest of China...