Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impossible, Taylor indicated, to arrange a series of small dinners similar to those which marked the recent visit of playwright S. N. Behrman '16, because Bradley's stay will be a good deal shorter than Behrman's, which lasted a week. The House staff will, however, try to allow as many students as possible to meet the General personally...
Even the temporary suspension of constitutional guarantees was perhaps a reasonable action in abnormal times. Less acceptable, however, is Castro's refusal to allow Batista adherents who took refuge in foreign embassies to leave Cuba. This violation of international principles again suggests that the liberator is not so much a reluctant agent of an aroused people as he is their willing and active leader...
...subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
Last week, when Italy refused to allow two Austrian nationalists to enter the disputed region to help the German-speaking population celebrate the150th anniversary of a Tyrolean uprising against Napoleon, Austria called home its ambassador to Rome. Viennese newspapers said he had been "insulted" by being forced to cool his heels in an anteroom of the Italian Foreign Office. White-stockinged Tyroleans from the Austrian side, who look so gay in the travel posters, staged a grim memorial service outside Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral...
...Israel. The Rumanian Communist government, while denouncing "infamous slanders" by "leading circles in Israel and Zionism" about "a mass migration of Jews" from Rumania, last week officially admitted for the first time that it was permitting Jews to leave for Israel, and would continue "on humanitarian grounds" to allow Jews to "reunite with their relatives in Israel...