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...months, while the Caribbean echoed to plots, shots and abortive invasions, the Organization of American States and its predecessor, the Pan American Union, had tried one stopgap measure after another to calm the situation. Last week the O.A.S. stopped stalling. In one brisk, four-hour session, its council: 1) invoked the Rio treaty of inter-American defense, 2) ordered a showdown investigation of the whole Caribbean mess, and 3) prepared to call a meeting of all 21 American foreign ministers, if necessary...
When Jacob NicoL left his house one brisk September morning in 1946, the world looked bright. He was living comfortably in Roxton Pond, Que., had a profitable trucking business and a pretty dark-haired bride of two days. When he returned that night, his world had suddenly collapsed. His wife, Lucile, had left him to go back to her mother. Nicol knew what that meant. A Baptist, he had courted Lucile, a Roman Catholic, for seven years before eloping with her to Vermont. His widowed mother-in-law, Mme. Oviline Charrois Labrecque, made it clear that she was determined...
...always the chance that China's Boss Mao Tse-tung will become another Tito. It might help to have an ambassador around to encourage him. ¶As the sole provider for Japan's deficits, the U.S. taxpayer would benefit financially if Japan could resume her oldtime brisk trade with the Chinese mainland. ¶Communist China will inevitably apply for China's seat on the United Nations Security Council. What would the U.S. then do-use the veto, which it scorns in Russian hands, to keep the representatives of 450 million people from the only forum of international...
...When brisk, breezy U.S. Ambassador Stanton Griffis made his first official call on Señora Perón at her ministry last month, he met Tambour and presently suggested that the dog ought to have a mate. The Señora agreed. Griffis telephoned his New York secretary, and within 48 hours Sylvia, a six-month-old silver poodle, was on her way to Buenos Aires...
Recruiting for the expedition after the wealth of Cibola was brisk, and the viceroy was pleased. Most of the noblemen who signed up furnished their own horses and equipment and paid their own way, but many of the enlisted men had to be financed. In the end the caravan was made up of more than 300 soldiers, "several hundred Indians who went as servants, hostlers or herdsmen," more than a thousand horses and mules, and a flock of sheep. On Feb. 22, 1540, Coronado's cumbersome, armor-clad host headed northward up the western coast of Mexico, with Fray...