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Conley was cast in the difficult role of the Sicilian patriot Arrigo, and at first his small but silvery tenor seemed hemmed in by the sumptuous sounds of Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (also U.S.-born) and the rumbling bass of Bulgarian Boris Christoff. But by the second act his voice had warmed up, and so had the elegant and traditionally indifferent first-night audience. When the final curtain came down on the blood-bathed stage, Milanese were shouting "Conelay, Conelay" from their carnation-decked boxes...
Millions signed, in confusion and innocence. "Are you for peace?" the collectors demanded. It was difficult to say no. By the fall of 1950, the Communists counted 450 million signatures, including 1,500,000 from the U.S., more Bulgarian signatures than there were Bulgarians, 243,500,000 Chinese, and so many Hungarian signatures that apparently every Hungarian down to two-and-a-half-year-olds had signed. The Peace Partisans collected thumbprints from illiterate East Indians, summoned African Negroes to peace-signing with jungle drums. Complained an Italian Communist: "During the last unit meeting, I told them I had already...
...Peace Partisans announced that more than half the North Korean population had signed the Stockholm Peace Appeal. But the redoubtable peace-lovers quickly set to work. "Mothers are to instill into their children a deep hatred of the imperialist warmongers, the murderers of Korean women and children," announced the Bulgarian Peace Congress. Early this year, something called the World Peace Council demanded that the United Nations withdraw its charge that the Chinese were aggressors...
Bulgaria. Yugoslav intelligence sources reported the arrest of 200 high officials of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Rather than yield to Communist requisition of their produce, many Bulgarian peasants are burning their crops and taking to the forests and mountains, where they form small armed bands. An estimated 40,000 Bulgarian peasants have been deported from the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border region to concentration camps, another 35,000 sent to prison, and 1,800 of more peasant families interned in their homes...
...California coast from San Francisco, includes among its 16,000 population two notable linguistic groups: the sardine fishermen, who speak Portuguese, and the U.S. Army and Air Force men, who speak in many tongues-Russian, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Persian, Hungarian, Rumanian, Greek, Polish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Last week 190 new officers and men arrived in town. Within eleven months, most of them will also be speaking new languages with rapid-fire fluency...