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...organs. The German people were partly to blame, for they did not support the few honest papers that warned what Hitler was up to. After daring to call the Nazi election victories of 1932 a TRIUMPH OF FOLLY, the Hannoverscher Kurier lost one-fifth of its circulation in a fortnight...
Planned Pause. A fortnight ago, the plot came to a boil when pro-Goulart navy and marine enlisted men rebelled against their officers and staged a sit-in strike in a Rio union hall, demanding passage of Goulart's broad and sweeping social and economic "reforms" (TIME, April 3). Far from cracking down on the mutineers for insubordination, Goulart's leftist Navy Minister gave them all weekend passes and full pardons. Newspapers, middle-road and right-wing politicians sensed that Goulart was bent on the swift formation of a socialist regime, and began a clamor of public protest...
After his trip to Cairo for the January "Arab summit meeting" of heads of anti-Israel states, Saud spent weeks politicking at home with the help of several sons and campaign photos of himself embracing Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he had once plotted to assassinate. Fortnight ago, thinking that he had rebuilt his prestige, King Saud decreed Feisal's resignation...
Since this is certain to be a drawn-out and perhaps fruitless affair, Illinois Senator Paul Douglas last week pointedly praised a short cut to fairer fares. Fortnight ago two U.S. lines - Lykes Bros, and Bloomfield - quit an Atlantic conference in order to set their own lower outbound rates, and last week some of their European competitors were forced to pull out to match the new rates. Douglas would like the Mar itime Administration to consider with holding subsidies from any American lines that fail to do Lykeswise...
...Fortnight ago, a silver-haired Southern gentleman named John Crowe Ransom stood up in Manhattan to receive the 1964 National Book Award for poetry. As founder and editor of the Kenyon Review, mentor to a platoon of celebrated poets and writers, and father of the New Criticism, Ransom is probably the most influential U.S. scholar-critic of the past 40 years. As the author of a few slender books of poetry, he has drawn the highest praise from the knottiest intellectuals of his time...