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...window, spends almost all his time in his suite, scuttles out of the center of a ring of bodyguards only to eat. Trujillo's mouthpiece newspaper, El Caribe, outrightly told Batista to "get out," but he has nowhere to go. France last week turned down his bid for asylum, and he got no answer to a feeler...
...stream of consciousness was mainly concerned with the unfriendly face of the world. "Criticism hurts," Castro admitted, "when coming from Mexico, which once gave me asylum" (TIME Cover, Jan. 26). But "if 20 people make a good jury, why don't thousands of people make a good jury...
...captives. Urrutia declared that they would be tried by revolutionary courts "in the same manner as war criminals were tried in Germany." About 300 others, Batista supporters, including the former boss of organized labor, Eusebio Mujal, crowded into Havana embassies. Urrutia said that Cuba would respect political asylum and allow the refugees to leave...
...have been different, he was sure, had the Stuarts kept their jobs. He decried also the English "illusion that the possession of wealth is an excellence, like courage, or charity." The U.S., where Belloc was a successful lecturer, fared little better; he called it "an amiable and pleasant lunatic asylum...
...proportions, its major purpose lies in other directions. The Cage is mainly a haven for any literature which, in its general nature, is particularly prone to destruction. Old books, printed on brittle paper, but not rare enough for Houghton, politically inflammatory publications, unwieldly collections of newspaper clippings--all find asylum behind the wire fence...