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...most reassuring anticoup voice came from the top. President João Café Filho, whose prestige would be needed to guarantee the success of a bloodless coup and avoid the risk of civil war, told an interviewer: "I will never be instrumental in establishing a dictatorial regime." At week's end, after a long conference with the President, General Canrobert decided that there was no reason why he should not enter the Central Army Hospital for a long-postponed medical checkup...
...Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy." A cirrhotic liver is relatively bloodless...
...Morrow: he had better resign. Morrow recalled what Shivers told him: "It's pure politics, Wright; I need Rayburn's help." Morrow stubbornly refused, and the governor hustled off to headquarters. In a Capitol Hill serving kitchen he smoked the peace pipe with Sam Rayburn and bloodless National Chairman Paul Butler. The sacrifice was coolly arranged...
...leader of Thailand's underground. When the Japanese left, Pridi became Premier, and Phibun was jailed for a while, then retired until his collaborationist past faded away. When he reappeared on a Bangkok parade ground to fly his kites, Thailanders knew he was back in politics. A 1947 bloodless coup restored him to power, sent Pridi into exile. Durable Premier Phibun has survived several attempted counterrevolutions. (In 1951 he was politely captured by the navy in the midst of a ceremony. He was taken aboard a warship, but escaped when a bomb hit the ship. Phibun swam safely back...
Actually, Thayer (1849-1921) was a better painter than modern critics are likely to allow. Critic James Flexner, for example, dismisses Thayer as a "workman" who "worked out a delicate and bloodless version of femininity which, draped or even undraped, was more pleasing to refined purchasers than the hardy realism of Homer and Eakins...