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Until last week, Brazil had been able to get through ten months of acute political crisis-ever since Jânio Quadros deserted the presidency-without much actual disorder. But then her luck ran out. Last week the country suffered its bloodiest outburst of violence in 27 years...
...destroy it. "If we are forced to leave," they threaten, "we will leave the country the way we found it in 1830." Meanwhile, they are desperately trying to provoke a racial war that would goad the Moslems to revolt and wreck the cease-fire agreement. Last week was the bloodiest since the cease-fire began...
...Modestly keeping in the background, intruding only occasionally to make a judgment, he lets the people who lived through the war tell about it in their own words. The result is not only an important Civil War history but an account more stirring than a description of the bloodiest battles...
...devil. Peter Haskell, though, prevented her from stealing the show. His unconventional Flamineo, more a pimp than a conspirator, lightened Webster's heavy psychologizing. As a commentator he clarified the story; as a murderer, he mad the killer's impulse seem explicable; and even when the action reached its bloodiest, he sustained its dramatic plausibility...
Thus from Europe's grimiest coalfields and bloodiest battlefields grew the great experiment in unity. For, argued Monnet in 1955, why not expand the Coal...