Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence-of-Arabia tradition commanding the British-equipped Arab Legion. Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb Pasha-known affectionately by his Bedouin warriors as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw), in honor of a bullet wound incurred in World War I fighting-quoted the Arab classics, read the lesson Sundays at the Anglican chapel in Amman, and used Britain's $24 million-a-year subsidy to make his 20,000 legionnaires the Middle East's finest fighting force...
Feed, Don't Fight. As his solution to Algeria's troubles, Mendes called for freeing political prisoners held without trial, doling out free food ("It's cheaper than fighting"), honest elections within six months and ultimate splitting up of vast colon estates. Then, taking a lesson from the U.S. 1952 campaign, Mendes capped his proposal by dramatically offering to go to Algeria and stay as long as necessary "to surmount all obstacles...
...Days That Shook the World. All in all, the story of tyranny rampant was pieced together out of newsclips and bits of movies from some 76 different sources. The film was often hauntingly effective with its firing squads, starving children, hanged partisans and iron-faced Red leaders. But its lesson-if any-was hopelessly lost in the maelstrom of scenes covering the past 50 years...
...Lesson for Tomorrow. Meissner's story differs from Willoughby's official account in two important respects. The U.S. Army believes that Sorge was betrayed to Tokyo's secret police by a Japanese Communist. Meissner credits Sorge's downfall to the work of a certain Colonel Osaki of the Japanese secret police who, in the best tradition of melodrama, tripped Sorge over the pretty foot of a nightclub dancer...
Whatever the facts, Meissner's story has two morals. The first, which Author Meissner calls "an ominous and sinister lesson for tomorrow," is that, despite the many sensational spy cases since the war, no ring quite as formidable and versatile as Sorge's has been uncovered-though there is no reason to assume that none exists...