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Juan Manuel de Rosas, dictator of Argentina, was a hellion. He wore lace-trimmed drawers, lived almost exclusively on beef, rode like a centaur and decimated the population of his country. He once slit the throats of 1,500 prisoners of war, was defeated and forced to flee the country in 1852 by a former lieutenant, Justo Jose de Urquiza, head of an army of hard riding gauchos...
...prestige and the prestige of his "Cantonese Government." General Chiang, once a sensational leader of armies but now a practicer of nonresistance toward Japan, suddenly found himself forced to "approve" the resistance currently being made. But General Chiang, while advocating resistance at Shanghai, rumored that he would move (flee) with what he called "my Government" to Peiping. Four years ago as Conqueror-of-all-China, he changed that city's name from Peking (meaning "Northern Capital") to Peiping (meaning "Northern Peace"). Last week General Chiang proposed to restore to the old city its historic name and rank...
...then nothing would be left for him but the Poor House. Into this unhappy scene, unexpectedly, comes a forgotten nephew from Australia. He is fairly prosperous, alone in the world. When Mr. Marble plunges instantly and shamelessly into discussing money matters with him, the nephew is revolted, tries to flee the house. In desperation Mr. Marble wheedles him into taking a farewell glass of whiskey. Mr. Marble is an amateur photographer and into the whiskey he pours some of the cyanide of potassium which he uses for developing. From that moment doom slowly continues to embrace plump, puffy Mr. Marble...
...January Kufra, the Senussi stronghold, was captured. Thousands of tribesmen were forced to flee into Egypt. Italy thrilled to learn that the squadrons of planes that harried the fleeing Senussites mightily from the air were commanded by little King Vittorio Emanuele's own cousin, Amedeo Duke of Apulia (TIME...
...looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas: the Panchen Lama or spiritual head of Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama or temporal ruler. Squabbling between these two holy men (fostered, said some observers, by British agents who found the Dalai Lama much more tractable) caused the Panchen Lama to flee from his headquarters in Tibet to China where he travels about, oblivious to and unharmed by all civil wars...