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...could comfortably be compressed in an aspirin bottle. The script of the controversial broadcasts, finally published in London's monthly Encounter in 1954, smacked more of Lower Smattering-on-the-Wissel than upper Silesia (where Wodehouse spent some time in a prison that had once been an insane asylum). Plainly, Wodehouse said nothing to support the Allied picture of the Nazis as brutes and sadists. During his stay in jail, Wodehouse reported, he had written a novel, read the complete works of William Shakespeare. "Square meals were rather noticeably lacking in squareness," he commented, and he did a stint...
...years of sycophantic loyalty to Moscow. Today, Ulbricht is thoroughly detested even in his own circle. No one can forget that he made no protest as Stalin purged dozens of his fellow German Communists in the World War II days, when much of the party fled to Moscow for asylum from Hitler. Ulbricht was apparently happy to see his political rivals disposed of. In May 1945, it was Ulbricht who led the little ten-man convoy of Communist leaders into war-torn Berlin to start the regime that today holds East Germany in a grip of iron...
...screamed. The gorillas grabbed him. But Nureev broke away and raced for the airport bar, screaming "Protect me! Protect me!" to airport police. The police took him in tow, and despite warm persuasion from half a dozen Soviet embassy employees who rushed up, Nureev demanded political asylum. Protectively convoyed by French cops, he was taken back into Paris, smiling for the first time that...
OEVERAL weeks ago, in describing how we put together our cover story on the Cuba disaster, we had to soft-pedal mention of our Havana correspondent, Jay Mallin, who at the time was a "guest" in the Swiss embassy (most European nations do not recognize the right of asylum). Mallin got out last week, and the story of how he escaped arrest and made it to the embassy is told in the Hemisphere section. When he thought it safe to leave the embassy for the airport, escorted by a Swiss official, he became for 3½ hours a member...
...butt for broad humorous gibes. But when his older brother runs out on the family and his widowed mother dies, the small community becomes their brother's keeper. They fail him, most of them, and after their effort to shuck him off onto the insane asylum collapses, the deeper tragedy follows. Author Williams is talking about the failure of human responsibility not through vindictiveness but through indifference. She does it with sureness, for she knows her villagers and she knows even more importantly, that when a man has failed another man, he has failed himself even worse...