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...cardinals, whose appointments bring the college to its authorized strength of 70, eleven are Italians. This raises the number of Italian cardinals to 27 (v. an Italian membership of 35 when Eugenic Pacelli became Pius XII in 1939). Three of the new cardinals are from Latin America (Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil), one from Canada. Other non-Italians: two Spaniards, one German, one Irishman (Archbishop D'Alton of Armagh in Northern Ireland) and two Frenchmen, giving France the highest number of cardinals (six) after Italy...
Challenge Met. Founded 42 years ago by Eduardo Santos, El Tiempo was democracy's most powerful voice during Colombia's period of peaceful progress in the first half of the century. During World War II, having temporarily laid aside his editorial responsibilities to serve as Colombia's President, El Tiempo's Santos ranged his country at the side of the U.S. His newspaper, printing not only first-rate world news but daily dispatches from correspondents in scores of Colombian cities, became a national newspaper, read from the Caribbean coast to the borders of Ecuador. El Tiempo...
...Colombia's three-year undeclared civil war reached a new pitch of ferocity. Heretofore, most of the fighting had been confined to the countryside, where Conservative troops and police fought pitched battles against "bandits," i.e., Liberal guerrillas. Last week the capital city of Bogotá was torn with strife...
Asylum Sought. There was evidence that the great majority of Colombians were tired of extremist hatemongering. When the government newspaper El Siglo reported that 36 soldiers had been killed in a fight with "bandits" early last week, the moderate Conservative Diario de Colombia printed proof that the real toll was four dead and one missing, and scolded El Siglo for falsifying the news. Said Medellín's Conservative El Colombiano...
...riding a wildly spinning wheel where today's victims become tomorrow's executioners and these, in turn, the future victims. Each victim feeds on the idea of retaliation, so that there will be enough hatred in Colombia for the next 150 years...