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Undaunted by the reserve of his countrymen, Old Chancellor Adenauer made an optimistic report to his Bundestag: "The crisis of the Western community has, we hope, been happily overcome." He bade it give its approval to the London agreement...
...Rafael Lacson was the undisputed boss of Negros Occidental, second most populous province in the Philippines. He sat in the governor's chair and, allied with the big sugar planters, ran a tight police state. The province's 200.000 voters did as Lacson bade and so did the under paid farm workers. If anyone stepped out of line in Negros Occidental, he answered either to the planters' private armies or to Lacson's own bullet-hard, radio-equipped constabulary. In 1949 a few foreign correspondents flew in to inspect this little dictatorship; Governor Lacson turned them...
...Fourth brother Frank, a mathematician, all-round athlete, footballer and rifle shot. "Lovable, affectionate, happy and gentle." Frank had no time to ripen for anything but slaughter. In a letter marked "Not to be delivered till after my death," Frank bade his parents a cheerful farewell -"the parting will not be for long. Merely for an infinitesimal space of time out of eternity." He was killed at 22, three months after joining the Gloucester Regiment at the front in France...
...much that all the shots missed. Worried by this bad-luck omen, Man Singh strode to the staked men and demanded: "To which caste do you belong?" Protested the policemen: "We are Moslems!" This explained everything. Kali desired no Moslem sacrifices-only Hindus. Man Singh untied the prisoners, sternly bade them go. Thankfully the policemen stumbled into the jungle and made their way back to their post...
Thirty-five years ago this month, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker bade Godspeed to a convoy of 63 Army trucks leaving Washington on a daring transcontinental trek to prove that the gasoline engine had really replaced the mule. With the motor train rode a young Army observer, Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. When the trucks crawled into San Francisco on Sept. 5, after 60 days and 6,000 breakdowns, the lieutenant was a confirmed advocate of an adequate, all-weather U.S. road system...