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...Saigon Radio, which abruptly ceased broadcasting at the start of the fighting, returned to the air. "Soldiers in the army, security service, civil defense force, and people's force," blared the radio. "The Ngo Dinh Diem government, abusing power, has thought only of personal ambition and slighted the fatherland's interests . . . The army has swung into action. The task of you all is to unite . . . The revolution will certainly be successful...
...guard you, Fatherland...
...invasion. President Kennedy, in fact, has promised them that the U.S. will not invade. Nor do they worry much about an internal uprising; after four years of power, they feel secure behind their 50,000-man army and 250,000-man militia. The slogan "Patria o Muerte [fatherland or death]" was on every wall 17 months ago; today the dinning words are Al Trabajo, meaning "to work...
...foreign firms have registered headquarters in Vaduz. While it is a constitutional democracy, Liechtenstein virtually dispenses with politics. There are two parties, known as the Reds and the Blacks, but they are equally conservative and anti-Communist and even have the same stirring motto: Faith in God, Prince and Fatherland...
...have gone to live with their rich uncle and his family on his estate in Tuscany. They love everybody with the rich confusion of childhood. "I love Baby the same as Jesus," ten-year-old Penny declares, "and God the same as Mussolini, and Italy and the Fatherland less than God but more than my yellow bear." School is a hodgepodge of religion and Fascism. The children sing Ave Maria with a lily in their right hands; then they bawl out the Fascist hymn, switch the lily to their left hands and give the Roman salute...