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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross between a cymbal and a drum). He has taken up piano and composition again and is currently working on a string quartet...
...said. "Sometimes you are on the mountaintops and can see the fields and the sun. Then, often enough, you are in the valley, but you can see the mountaintop. That is enough. I had been told, I must confess, that most Americans are very hard, very businesslike. I have found no hard side. I have found Americans very emotional and sentimental...
...optimism heard at The Hague found only a faint echo some 8,000 miles away at Jogjakarta, the makeshift capital of the Indonesian Republic. As news of the agreement crackled in over the shortwave radio last week, there was increasing discontent among the nationalists. A leader of the Labor Party summed up their complaints: "Too many concessions to the Dutch...
Were Macao's days now numbered? Would the Chinese Reds seize it? Back in Lisbon, Premier Salazar said: "It remains to be seen whether reason will be able to avoid violence and whether the path of respect, of rights and of conciliation of interests can be found." More than a month ago, Lisbon sent reinforcements to Governor Oliveira's garrison...
...gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes are now handled by an employee-management council. There are twelve Communists on the Marquot payroll, but Marquot says with a twinkle, "They are theoretical Communists who vote Red but who want no Communism in the factory...