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...Majesty's government would continue to give political asylum in Hong Kong to Nationalists, as it had to Communists...
Last week Wheeler called a press conference, denounced the U.S. for the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic pact and "Wall Street cartelization." To the delighted Czech press he announced that he would formally ask for asylum in Czechoslovakia, where he had "got to know the real democracy...
...Faune in Serge Diaghilev's new ballet company which opened in Paris. In 1916 he toured the Americas, where his fame mounted while his mental health declined (he began to identify himself with the faun in his most celebrated dance). He spent 21 years in a Swiss asylum, was moved to England in 1947 by devoted wife Romola, author of the frank, sympathetic, 1934 bestselling biography, Nijinsky. His own explanation of his fabulous leaps into the air: "You have just to go up and pause there a little...
...President of Harvard," said one man with a funny look in his eye. "Will you direct me to my office?" Fitzgerald asked him where he lived. When the men replied. "Danvors," Fitzgerald called the asylum there. The little men in white soon came to bring the escaped "President" back home...
...British immigration officials have already begun to tighten the fence against "undesirables." Typical was the case of one Nikola Martinovic, who flew into London from Switzerland last week, described himself as a political refugee from Tito's Yugoslavia seeking asylum in Britain. When immigration inspectors told him that his visa had expired, he shouted wildly: "I don't want to go back! I will commit suicide if you send me back to Yugoslavia!" After a night under guard, Martinovic was put on a plane bound for Switzerland. Over St. Quentin, France, he opened a door of the plane...