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Haggling & Higgling? Winston Churchill expressed Britain's growing unease. Said he in the House of Commons: "We now know that the Communists are killing U.N. soldiers, and our soldiers. We now know that they have established a reign of terror in China, with horrible executions and mob butcheries [see Foreign News] and a merciless purge characteristic of Communist tyranny wherever it is applied . . . We ought not, I say, to have any sympathies with Red China, and the more they are expressed and manifested in this House, the more harm is done to our relations with the U.S. After...
...bosses began scheming to free him. The chance came when Perón was brought back to Buenos Aires' military hospital for a lung examination. Next morning, Oct. 17, 1945, some 50,000 trade unionists streamed across the bridge from the packinghouse quarter of Avellaneda. Most of the mob were coatless-a shocking sight in staid Buenos Aires-and some, even worse, were shirtless. They marched to the hospital and to the palace, ominously bellowing...
Scholarly Paz Estenssoro, onetime Finance Minister and M.N.R. boss, fled to Argentina after the 1946 revolution, when a La Paz mob strung up the bullet-riddled body of M.N.R.-backed Dictator Gualberto Villarroel from a lamppost. Since then, Paz has lived mostly in Buenos Aires and Uruguay. Political confusion and economic difficulties at home paved the way for his startling comeback. But he did not win the absolute majority required for direct election. Congress, meeting in August, must now choose a President from among the three leading candidates (one of whom was backed by the present government...
...Greater Loyalty. Where can man look for a sword to cut the thread? Only, says Berggrav, in that which marks the difference between, a people and a mob-the conscience, where speaks the voice of God. Only insofar as Christians recognize a loyalty greater than their loyalty to the state "can law and freedom, realities which the state is supposed to protect, continue to exist...
According to Wilder, "Mob Dick" represents a challenge to America's belief in "a gradual man-propelled amelioration." Melville's book, he said, is set apart from European literature because of its individualism, its abstractness, and its lack of "a sense...