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Upmost Caudillo. Belatedly, Colonel Perón and the Government tried to tone down the interview after they saw it in cold print in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. Perón claimed misunderstanding and misuse of off-the-record statements. Said a canny Argentine: "He doesn't say he didn't mean it; he says he didn't mean it to be published...
...silver armor (which hangs freshly polished, semperparatus, behind the Managing Editor's desk) and ride roughshod over the tyrants of University Hall and drive the money changers from Lehman. They will be received in the dressing rooms of stars of the legitimate and illegitimate stages and interview the aspirants to fame that they may make or break with the stroke...
...Marshal wanted the record straight. To make sure, he gave an interview last week to the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, the Baltimore Sun's Mark S. Watson and a correspondent of the London Times. He told them that Mussolini had sought to dissuade Hitler from war in 1939, but that the swift advance of the Germans through Belgium and France in May 1940 changed his mind. In placing the blame, Badoglio omitted to mention King Vittorio Emanuele's signing of the declaration...
Wrote Timesman Matthews at the end of the interview: "But one could see where [Badoglio's] heart lay when the writer reminded him of our last meetings in Addis Ababa . . . in 1936. 'Those were better times for Italy,' he said. . . . 'Do you remember Termaber Pass,' he asked eagerly, 'and those three days we waited while . . . the Negus [Haile Selassie] fled?' " And as a soldier Badoglio scorned Il Duce's folly in dispersing his army so that only twelve divisions were in Italy when the invasion came...
...Protestants and Jews to advise him on the problem. And when PM gleefully referred to Boston as a city "where the people talk only to Beichman but Beichman can't talk to the Gov.," fair-minded Governor Saltonstall backtracked some more. He granted Reporter Beichman a 15-minute interview which began with a "Glad to see you," and included the admission "I had a rude awakening on Monday...