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This week, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Budapest to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the victory, he will find the army of liberation still in position. And for good reason: in 1956 it took a brutal commitment of Russian tanks and terror to crush the valiant attempt of the Hungarians to throw out their "liberators...
Mention Arevalo to a Guatemalan peasant (or to almost any Latin American peasant), and he will chatter excitedly, full of enthusiasm. A former professor of philosophy, Arevalo returned to Guatemala in 1944 when the brutal dictator Jorge Ubico was overthrown; braced by his proclaimed policy of "spiritual socialism," he was a natural choice to lead his country. Guatemalans remember Arevalo's presidency for land reforms and the organization of labor...
Dodd argued that "any objective person" reading the report "would have to conclude that the accounts of massive persecution of the Buddhist religion were, at the best, vastly exaggerated, and at the worst a sordid propaganda fraud. We were told that the Diem government was guilty of such brutal religious persecution that innocent Buddhist monks were driven to commit suicide in protest. Now it turns out that the agitation was essentially political." Concludes Dodd: "What this all adds up to is that the American people have once again been grievously misinformed by some of their newspapers on a foreign situation...
...this characteristically brutal self-appraisal, Aiken almost dispels the need for further criticism of his work. Conrad Aiken is not a great novelist. By every time-honored (or shall we say time-worn) criterion of criticism--characterization, plot, style--he is a failure...
...inconsistency of a brutal penal code in an enlightened society has long troubled civilized men from the days of ancient Greece to the present era of movements against capital punishment. The Ceremony is a gripping indictment of this inconsistency, and one of the best American movies to come to Boston in a number of months...