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Banned from this year's carnaval are the sambas with satiric verses that might offend touchy European countries. But one of this year's sambas describes Italians fleeing through the desert, praying to Allah for water. But there is still more than enough fun for the Cariocas and their guests-dancing in the streets, wearing gay costumes, jamming aboard the open streetcars, making up new and scurrilous samba verses and above all enjoying four unfettered days in a formal country and an uneasy world...
...know what constitutes "classified" information. The press sections of the services, instead of being headed by generals and admirals who have authority to decide what is and is not classified information for publication, are manned by officers of lower rank who cannot give out any information which might offend some cranky general or admiral. Result: the press sections of the services withhold much information that is already matter of public record (printed, for example, in the Congressional Record to which anyone can subscribe...
...humanity he wrung forth a tremendous and dynamic response. ... In order to save humanity from the horror of ... Naziism, we must find a way of living superior, not merely to Naziism, but to that which we ourselves knew before. ... We are unprepared for this. . . . You must be prepared to offend people who are determined to preserve the existing order. ... I beg of you now to proclaim the new society openly. ... So only wall you save yourselves...
...days while Belgrade hemmed & hawed. The Germans asked for a naval escort through Yugoslavia's neutral waters, hoping to establish a system whereby Nazi freighters could ply all around the neutral Balkan peninsula from Russia's Black Sea oil ports. But Yugoslavs had no wish to offend the Allies...
...waging economic war with more ruthless disregard for neutral rights and international law, the Allies may offend neutrals obliquely without bringing them into the war. Last week's detention of two Russian freighters in the Far East was strong Allied provocation of Red Russia, but was scarcely calculated to lead to hostilities. Even if it should, the new Allied attitude seemed to be that they did not care...