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...anti-communist politicians and military men distrusted him to the point where they brought Brazil to the brink of civil war before a parliamentary system was devised to limit his powers as President. To make matters worse, Brazil, which the U.S. hoped to make a cornerstone of the Alli ance for Progress, was in economic chaos; financial mismanagement had produced a zooming cost of living, a runaway currency, and a severely unbalanced foreign trade...
...G.I.s, a wintry, curfewed Paris seemed much gayer last week: up near the Arc de Triomphe a Stage Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derri...
...Foreign Minister during World War I, author of the notorious "Zimmer mann Note" of pneumonia; in Berlin. In January 1917, the British Naval Intelligence intercepted and decoded a note from Zimmermann to the German Minis ter in Mexico: If the U. S. entered the war, Germany wanted a Mexican alli ance, promised U. S. territory as booty...
...GOOD AMERICANS-Jerome Bahr- Scribner ($2.50). Thirteen short stories in a Winesburg, Ohio framework, by a young writer whose talent will bear watching. Novelist Ernest Hemingway praises these stories for "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness." ALLI'S SON-Magnhild Haalke-Knopf ($2.50). Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset...
...Harvard debaters, Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35, and A. Gilman Sullivan '36, will maintain that as such an alli- ance could have no moral effect for peace, it would be impractical and disregarded, which would in itself contain seeds for future...