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...away from Oxford, a Middle East correspondent for the London Evening Standard had made a guess of his own, cabled it to his paper. The Standard put in a phone call to a villa on the French Riviera. Robust, 70-year-old Antonin Besse, the man the Standard wanted to reach, was not home, but his secretary was. Was the anonymous donor really Monsieur Besse? "Why, that's a secret," blurted the secretary. "M. Besse doesn't want anyone to know...
Oxford & Admiration. As Monsieur X, Antonin Besse had explained last fall, in part, why he had given so much to Oxford. No Oxford man himself, he had admired Oxonians as acquaintances and employees, wanted more young men trained as they had been. Besse has not yet explained one further mystery: he sent his own two sons to Cambridge...
Last week Antonin Besse was in Aden and was not talking. Said an employee in his London branch office: "The old man won't like it that his name is out. For 50 years he has worked on the principle that the less people know about him, the less trouble he will have." Oxford authorities felt the same way. They did not have all the cash in hand yet, and as one undergraduate cracked: "They sure don't want to get the old man in a huff and have him take the money back. That would...
...most important military refugee from Czechoslovakia since the Communist coup turned up in Heidelberg last week. He was slight, soft-spoken General Antonin Hasal, 55, military adviser to President Eduard Benes until Communist Leader Klement Gottwald took over the presidency in June. Hasal, who at 25 was a general in the Czech Legion in Russia in World War I and fought with other Czech refugees in France in 1940, began his third exile with an interview. Excerpts...
...Premier Antonin Zapotocky (TIME, June 21) announced plans for further purges of the army,* the courts, the schools, the libraries, and the economy ("to erase the last vestige of capitalism" and establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest...