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...routine cruise to "show the flag," the British warships Amphion and Contest steamed into the harbor of Santa Ana Island in the southern Solomons (which are under a British protectorate). On the beach the Britons saw a strange flag flying from a pole-a yellow field with vertical black stripes. The Amphion's pidgin-English interpreter asked the truculent islanders grouped around the flagpole what the flag stood for. It stood, said the natives, for "Martin Lo"-pidgin English for Marxian law. Communism had arrived among the atolls...
...keep the audience laughing most of the time, and in this Evans, has been supremely successful. The dream scene in which the original Don Juan appears and brings out the philosophical content of the play in a long discussion with the Devil, the Commendatore, and Donna Ana, has been cut. In the light of the Evans interpretation of the play, that is all that can be done. The scene is only occasionally funny and hardly dramatic...
Said Groza: "We are moving forward to the elimination of the last traces of Fascism." He paused significantly. The implication became even clearer when Rumania's Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker swung her jutting chin around toward the royal box, and gave Michael a long, long stare...
...note charging Rumania's Communist-stooge Government with having violated its peace treaty with the U.S. Suppression of the National Peasant Party, and arrest of Juliu Maniu, National Peasant leader, were both in violation of guaranteed freedoms, said Secretary Marshall. In Bucharest, Marshall's note went unpublished. Ana Pauker, Rumania's Amazonian Communist boss, was setting the tone. In a recent speech she termed Americans "fascists" and "enemies of the people...
...marked by extreme vanity, inhumanity, ruthlessness and a complete lack of loyalty to any friend or cause. Dr. Menninger notes some glaring symptoms of severe neurosis: Custer was noted for gaudy uniforms and bad manners; during the Civil War he stole a pair of spurs given by General Santa Ana to the father of one of his friends who was a Confederate officer; he often exposed his troops to unnecessary danger and slighted their medical care; in his attacks on Indian camps he habitually slaughtered the women & children. Dr. Menninger's summary: in World War II, Custer...