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...Fascist, made a very successful appearance in Boston's Old South Meeting House Sunday afternoon. The one-time head of the America First party, currently promoting his Christian Nationalist Crusade, could scarcely have asked for a reception better suited to his purposes. He got front page publicity complete with banner headlines and pictures in Boston newspapers. He was able to place himself on the side of law, order, "Americanism," and free speech--all without uttering a single audible word...
...above mentioned bills before it. That the plan backfired is a fortuitous accident, and fortune is not always so kind. In fact the impression resulting from the original story may not be entirely erased, because retractions or modifications are never so eye-filling as eight column banner headlines...
...pattern repeated itself in later years. The ways of passive action-the sari-clad women lying on railway tracks, the distilling of illicit salt from the sea, the boycotting of British shops, the strikes, the banner-waving processions-would lead to shots in the streets, to burning and looting. Gandhi always punished himself for his followers' transgressions by imposing a fast on himself...
...night before his ship sailed, posters appeared on city walls summoning Porteños to a farewell to "a great friend of all Argentines." They responded. Next day at the dock, a band alternately played the Argentine national anthem and the Star-Spangled Banner. President Perón, his Cabinet, and the diplomatic corps arrived and were ushered aboard...
...would go on to France and England-where she was already getting catcalls from the press. The Socialist Party has urged French Premier Paul Ramadier to declare her unacceptable. And London's big, breezy Sunday Pictorial, which was howling at Argentine beef prices, screamed from a frontpage banner, PRESIDENT'S WIFE is NOT WELCOME. But Evita was used to brickbats; they had not stopped her before...