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Before 1958, Lieut. General Humberto Delgado was an ornament of the regime of Premier António Salazar. He served for five years as a military .attache in Washington, and was Portugal's representative to NATO. But then Delgado made the mistake of campaigning seriously for the presidency in one of Salazar's mock elections. Defeated, Delgado was promptly fired from his job as director of civil aviation, and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy until he got a guarantee of safe conduct to leave the country...
...blockade of news from inside China has been remarkably effective, shy of one hundred per cent. Confused liberals have no facts on which to base discussions with Marxists or rabid ant-communists. Our universities are staffed by China experts who have not set foot in New China...
...Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young son, Gonçalo's stupid mistress Alexandra, and António, an old schoolmate fallen on hard times. As the key is wound and the book begins to tick, Gonçalo meets António. Then he sees his wife, then Alexandra. The programmed gears carry Alexandra to António and back...
...words of one medical school dean who remarked, "The unexciting person will definitely have a more difficult time getting admitted in the coming years." On the other hand, for those students at the other polar extreme, there is very little play in medical school. The moral, Neither an ant nor a grasshopper...
...been left standing by the road." Each morning, at a prison camp where Von Lehndorff worked, the dead -stripped naked by the living-were stacked outside the barracks. One man was brought into the camp hospital "so covered with lice that you could compare him only with an ant hill." But Von Lehndorffs diary is far from just a catalogue of horrors. He encountered kindness as well as cruelty, and was often treated more humanely by the Russians than by treacherous fellow Germans who tried to ingratiate themselves with their new masters by turning informer...