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...flee to asylum in a Rio embassy. When he returned to Congress after World War II, as floor leader for the Social Progressive Party, he sat at his old desk on the opposition side. But his party bosses, after nominating him for Vice President in 1950, withdrew their own presidential nominee in return for Vargas' support of Café Filho. Thus, Café Filho was swept into office in an administration with which he had little sympathy...
...only four or five miles from the mainland. Quemoy bristles with Nationalist troops, is said to be heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei, but it seemed a rather tiny exploit to be boasting about. Most likely the cautious Communists were trying to sound out the specific U.S. intentions in Formosa Strait...
...ways of art experts are usually cautious and often strange. A case in point is the history of a small oil Pieta at the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa. In 1893 the painting bore a label boldly attributing it to Rubens. Later, when critics questioned the label, the museum withdrew the painting from view. In 1910 it went on exhibit again, cautiously identified as a "school of Rubens" work. In 1920 the authorities relabeled the painting "Unknown. From school of Rubens?" By 1928 they had lost all confidence, reattributing the canvas to an "unknown Genoese of the 18th century." Back...
...even the primary. The G.O.P. turned on the pressure, urged him to withdraw in favor of able ex-Congressman Clifford Case. Finally, party leaders told Hendrickson bluntly that he must go -but let him know that such unselfish sacrifice would not be forgotten. Hurt, and a little bewildered, Hendrickson withdrew this spring. Thus Case was assured the Republican nomination...
...spirit of Locarno." Germans were delighted: "Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victors' heels, and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today . . . becomes a factor of might once more," crowed the Berliner Tageblatt. Reassured by German pledges of good behavior, 1) Britain and France withdrew all occupation forces from the Rhineland, which Germany promised solemnly to leave demilitarized; 2) the League of Nations admitted Germany to membership. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill in 1929 called it "the greatest measure of self-preservation yet taken by Europeans." He still thinks well...