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...young prince's slight frame was fitted out in olive drab and hung with the ritual cordon and sword. In one swoop, he was promoted from civilian to lieutenant general (Belgium's highest military rank) with nothing to bolster such splendor but an uncertain salute learned in Boy Scout days, still shaky despite much practice before a mirror...
...tight cordon of tanks and armored trucks circled slowly around Guatemala City's "Stadium of the Revolution." Inside, under a blazing sun, 50,000 Guatemalans applauded a ceremony all but unprecedented in the little republic's turbulent history-the peaceful and constitutional transmission of power from one President to another...
Alabama's newly elected Governor Cordon Persons carried out his campaign pledge to ban the medieval practice of flaying unruly convicts, publicly burned 30 of the state's heavy, 5-ft. leather lashes. Two others were saved as mementos: one for the state's Department of Archives and History, one for the governor's office...
...Gibraltar Policy. Herbert Hoover would pull out of Korea, send no more U.S. forces overseas except to a limited cordon of Pacific and Atlantic bases, build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of Western Civilization" and wait the Russians out. Senator Taft would include several more bases than Hoover (e.g., North Africa, perhaps Malaya and Spain), and honor the U.S. commitment to fight if a North Atlantic ally is attacked. But he would fight by sea and air, not on land...
Watchful Waiting. The U.S., said 76-year-old Herbert Hoover in a radio speech to the nation, should, in effect, be prepared to abandon Asia and Europe to Communism, and to build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of civilization." It should cut its world commitments down to a cordon of ocean bases-Formosa, the Philippines and Japan in the Pacific, and Britain, "if she wishes to cooperate," in the Atlantic...