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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito in his reply to Moscow complained of Russia's "demonstrative Soviet troop movements in the neighboring countries along the Yugoslav border"; these, he said, were intended "to intimidate the Yugoslav peoples and to exercise pressure upon them." His most immediate worry was not that Yugoslavia would be invaded but that Yugoslav Communists would split under the Red army pressure...
...look like the man to lead his people to independence and victory over the Communists. When he first assumed his Dragon Throne (1932), he was a playboy and a puppet. The French owned him, along with the 7,000 jazz phonograph records and the 100 dozen ping-pong balls with which he moved into his teakwood Palace of Supreme Peace. The young emperor, as "absolute master, father and mother" of his tough, diligent people, seemed only partly to fulfill the requirements of the Imperial Book of Rites which says that "the Emperor's eyes must dwell motionless upon utter...
...procession's end, Nehru stepped from his barge to an automobile and sped off to a guest house. Along the way he was serenaded by a volunteer band which seemed to know only one tune-Marching Through Georgia...
...them went to the post for the big race. Hill Prince had not been nominated for the Futurity; by the rules of the race all hopefuls had to be nominated back in 1947 before they were born. Curtice had been nominated originally (along with 1,703 others), but his owners let interim payments lapse. Middleground, who was eligible, was simply being saved for next year...
...easier reading, and present them in a big well-printed book, profusely illustrated by an artist who could make the prophets and kings of Israel as real as the corner grocer and the local minister. The pictures on the four following pages are examples of what he meant. Along with 24 others, they are full-page illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English of the King James version, were chosen by 56-year-old Publisher Harte with...