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Maimed Soldier. Cortez, conqueror of Mexico, died in the year (1547) Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra was born. The writer's life outlasted the Siglo de oro (Golden Century) of Spain's empire; he died in the same year (1616) as his great contemporary, Shakespeare. A soldier, like every active Spaniard of his period, Cervantes commanded a longboat against the Turks at the decisive sea fight of Lepanto (1571) and got his left hand crushed. The Christian commander, Don John of Austria, later gave him a letter of commendation. Carrying the letter, Cervantes was captured by the Turks...
...Russo-Argentine decision to kiss and make up caught Chile's Communists short. The day before the announcement, Santiago's Communist El Siglo damned Argentine "maneuvers to tie Chile to the train of a Nazi-Perón war." The day after, El Siglo praised Perón's democratic action, headlined: RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA WILL HELP ARGENTINA FREE ITSELF FROM IMPERIALISM...
...Chile's noisy Communists, whose strike tactics have split the Popular Front and lost them prestige recently within the trade union movement, were not to be put off by that sort of modesty. The Communist El Siglo exclaimed over the new Ambassador for 14 columns, compared him favorably with Henry Wallace, and noted proudly that he had mastered two words of Spanish -"Viva Chile"-"in a very few minutes...
...newspaper, El Siglo, property of Colombia's most choleric orator, Laureano Gómez (who went into self-imposed exile following the Presidential abduction last summer), roared that "arrests of clergymen violated the Concordat with the Vatican." But the rest of the press saved its condemnation for the plotters...
...Argentina. The Inter-American Committee for Political Defense, meeting in Montevideo, had agreed that its member nations should consult before taking action; they were still consulting last week. Argentina's totalitarian Government, ignored by the Committee and widely suspected of instigating the revolt (a Chilean Communist paper, El Siglo, said that Dictator-Colonel Juan Domingo Péron had boasted of doing so), had hesitated 14 days...