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Unmistakable Proof. The objective of the treaty, he declared, was to provide "unmistakable proof this time that the free nations will stand together to resist armed attack from any quarter." Being purely defensive, it was no old-fashioned military alliance...
CREATION OF A REGIONAL GROUPING of independent, non-Communist Asiatic nations to work in cooperation with the U.S. and the Western nations for the economic and political progress of all non-Communist Asiatic areas, free and colonial. This would involve development programs sponsored by the U.S. and other nations, using public and private capital. The key to this program is the example of recent British-Indian relations. When India surprisingly decided two months ago to stay in the Commonwealth with Britain, the Communist press howled with disappointment and rage. Well it might. India's decision does not balance...
...arrest. In Quito mounted troops broke up a demonstration of students and socialists shouting "Down with Plaza!" The President, following his policy of ignoring or minimizing plots, immediately ordered the release of students arrested in the demonstration, and requested that the judge assigned to the conspiracy trial free the defendants if there was any legal...
...conditions: a rotating committee of exhibitors will pass on stories, casts and budgets to make sure that they beat in tune with "the pulse of the public" as felt at the box office. Even if some studios do not need financing, they may get the company's advice free...
Death in a Flue. Not all masters were so "humane." Phillips cites, among many others, the case of Master Joseph Rae who, after an eleven-year-old apprentice had tried for five hours to free himself from a narrow flue, "sent another apprentice up the flue to attach a cord to one of [his] legs. Despite the agonized shrieks of the tortured boy, Rae and another man hauled on their end of the rope with all their strength. Finally, when neither shrieks nor groans were heard, Rae, sensing that the boy was dead, drank a dram of whiskey and left...