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After three hours of marching, the 15,-ooo paraders massed in front of the National Palace. On the balcony, flanking President Jacobo Arbenz, were the warm-up speakers, Labor Chieftain Victor Manuel Gutierrez and Peasant Boss Leonardo Castillo Flores. both Reds. They plugged solidarity with Viet Minh and similar causes. Arbenz took over from there: ¶On the H-bomb: all the tests must be halted, atomic weapons must be banned. ¶On the recent U.S. note asking a $15 million indemnity to the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. for 233,973 acres of expropriated banana lands: "Blackmail...
...time of truce. Thus ended Operation China, the strange British attempt to win by negotiation what 6,000 British troops and a squadron of heavy bombers had failed to win by war: the surrender of Kenya's Mau Mau. Named for General China, the captured Mau Mau chieftain who saved himself from the gallows by promising to work with the British (TIME, March 8), Operation China had long remained as mysterious as the Mau Mau. From Nyeri, TIME Correspondent Alexander Campbell reported...
Pink-cheeked and cold-eyed, Teamster Chieftain Dave Beck is one labor leader who not only admires the U.S. Big Businessman but considers himself a self-made if not yet fully recognized member of their lodge-he is proud of having made a fortune as a capitalist himself...
Saadia (M-G-M). "I will not allow any man to look at my body," moans Saadia (Rita Gam), a Moroccan's daughter, as the kaid (Cornel Wilde) pounds at her portal. The kaid commands. Saadia fearfully slides back the bolt. In rushes the desert chieftain. Has he come to print a searing kiss upon her lips? No, he has merely brought the local French medic (Mel Ferrer), who says that Saadia has acute appendicitis, and proceeds to cut her open...
...Moslem Brothers dipped their handkerchiefs into the martyrs' blood, held their Korans aloft and led a mob of 50,000 in Abdin Square, under Naguib's office balcony. A brotherhood chieftain climbed atop a jeep, screaming that beloved Naguib must free all the prisoners and oust the military from the government. Naguib, appearing on the balcony, ignored the agitators and told the crowd: ''I owe you my life. Everything will go in the right direction." The mob responded by dispersing. As a gesture to the evident public dissatisfaction with the behind-the-scenes rule...