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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talking about?" asked a late-coming reporter of a press-gallery attendant. "I don't know; he hasn't said," replied the attendant.) Finally Millikin threw in the towel, and at 10:51 the Senate adjourned and the Congress faced the people to give, by November, an account of its-and Eisenhower's-stewardship of the Republic...
Percentage Figuring. A year ago, Herbert Hoover Jr. was as little known to the public eye as his father had been, say, in 1914. He was basking on a California beach last September, reading a newspaper account of the deadlock in Iran and feeling pleased that he was not mixed up in it, when Secretary Dulles called him on the phone from Washington. Would Hoover go to Iran, as a State Department special adviser, and see if he could bring the obdurate British and the stubborn Iranians together? Hoover would. He now assesses the job (with shrewd help from Ambassador...
...post as Deputy Judge Advocate General to the British Army of the Rhine after he and Lady Russell tried to drive their car through a procession of German villagers, and got manhandled in the attempt. Shortly afterwards Lord Russell started work on The Scourge of the Swastika, a legalistic account of the gas ovens and crematoria of the concentration camps. As a matter of courtesy, Russell sent the completed man uscript to his boss, 72-year-old Lord Simonds, the Lord High Chancellor. Instead of winning the expected perfunctory approval, his book became the subject of anxious discussion...
Historians who believe that great decisions are the result of historical necessity rather than of the acts of individuals will find in Monelli's account of Mussolini's life a stiff argument to the contrary. Personal vanity, swollen to monstrous proportions, made Italy Germany's ally in World War II. Mussolini detested Hitler, but, as he said frankly: "It's too late to drop him. I don't want them to say abroad that Italy's cowardly." Of all Mussolini's millions of spouted words, none has a greater ring of sincerity than...
Author Monelli's book is never better than in the account of the last days of Mussolini and his doxie. Utterly defeated, universally despised, the sick and whipped dictator began mouthing extracts from a Life of Jesus and discovering "surprising analogies between his own fate and that of Christ." Too vain to surrender to the British, too indecisive to accept German protection, Mussolini blundered into the waiting hands of his bitterest enemies, the Italian partisans. By the time they dragged him, in pouring rain, to the wall against which he and Claretta were to be shot, he was much...