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...either its army or its navy. The last successful Siamese coup in 1947 jolted navy-backed Premier Pridhi Banomyong, leader of Siam's pro-allied underground during World War II, out of power, and supplanted him with Army Man Phibun, a wartime Japanese collaborationist who is now an ardent friend of the West. Last week, with Phibun held prisoner on the warship Sri Ayuthia in the harbor, the navy announced that a new government, headed-with Siamese illogic-by a dissident ex-army officer, was taking over. The army supported Foreign Minister Nai Warakan Baucha as interim Premier...
...succeeds never sought the Foreign Minister's job at all. An ardent nationalist intellectual with good family connections in the Peronista Party, Hipólito Paz asked Perón one day in 1949 to make him vice consul in Mallorca so that he could write a novel there. Perón, having just sacked overambitious Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia, was at that moment in the market for a Foreign Minister of a more unobtrusive type. He picked Paz, who has made a modest success in the job as a 100% loyal Peronista...
...Really Art? Although Maugham may have made a dressier screen appearance than Thurber presumably will (on Thurber's gaunt frame his expensive clothes give an unfurled effect), several ardent Thurberites have already pointed out that Maugham cannot draw. But, as the question has often been phrased in his home town, Columbus, Ohio: "Can Thurber, either?" For some time now, a psychiatrist has been writing Thurber, offering to cure him of his drawing...
...John Christie, 68, owner of the estate and founder of the festival. Christie, a former science master at Eton, inherited his family's fortune ($1,329,000 and 10,000 acres in Sussex and Devonshire) after World War I. Although he plays no instrument himself, Christie is an ardent music lover. In 1931 he married a pretty young singer named Audrey Mildmay, and for her built the perfect miniature opera house on his estate. Christie already had an international festival in mind. Said he: "We will...
...neither do I." But several were softened and seaway supporters were confident that a committee majority would now recognize that the project's importance rated a vote by the full House. Equally important, the committee chairman, Democrat Charles A. Buckley, was converted from a lukewarm supporter to an ardent seaway enthusiast-despite the violent anti-seaway sentiments of his native New York City. Said he: "My country comes first . . . [The seaway] is essential to American defense...