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...sacrificed his countrymen to the savagery of the Nazis, represented more than any other living person the bitter, neurotic type of Balkan extremist who helped plunge Europe into two devastating wars; of the effects of a bullet lodged in his body three years ago by an assassin; in Madrid. Embittered by the Allies' creation of Yugoslavia after World War I, Pavelic promised obedience to Nazi Germany in return for a new state of Croatia with himself at the head of it. In the course of the war, he ordered or sanctioned the slaughter of 800,000 Serbs, Jews...
Even before the calendar flipped over to the 1960s, the nation's datebook for the New Year was packed with heavy appointments. After leaving Paris, President Eisenhower touched down in Madrid and Casablanca, where, as before, people by the hundreds of thousands welcomed him with remarkable affection and thunderous cheers. Home at last from his unprecedented 22,000-mile eleven-nation tour, he got a fond greeting from Mamie and from hundreds of Washingtonians carrying sputtering sparklers. But his work had only begun: Congress convenes next week; his State of the Union Message is due before...
...faces belonged to the thousands of thousands who massed along the streets of Ankara, Karachi, Kabul and New Delhi, of Athens, Madrid and Casablanca. The faces were of all shapes and shades. But as they turned toward the smiling, pink-cheeked man who had come among them, they held in common a look?a look of thirsting for the good things that the modern world seemed to promise...
...President de Gaulle shook hands. It was a businesslike welcome, with little pomp, and after they chatted for a few moments the two men parted for the night. It was late, and ahead for Ike were three hard days of talks with other Western leaders, brief stops at Madrid and Casablanca, and-having written a few pages of history himself-the long flight back to Washington and Christmas Eve at home...
There are cheap cardboard crèches, turned out by the thousands in busy factories, and there are others whose making is a joyful family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling and sleep beneath. There are crèches in churches, in public squares, even in bars-a notable one is located in the English Bar in Nazareth...