Word: historiae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro made one of the most startlingly audacious speeches ever heard in a courtroom. Secretly printed and distributed throughout the island under the title La Historia Me Absolvera (History Will Absolve Me), it combined the tragic hopelessness of Daniel Webster debating the devil before a jury of condemned souls in Benet's short story, the irony of Marc Antony's appeal to the Roman mobs, and parts of the political theory of John of Salisbury, John Locke, Thomas Paine, and the Cuban national hero, Jose Marti. Had the Cuban island more significance in world affairs, Castro's 60,000 word...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS), N.Z.Z. characteristically handled it in a short wire-service story at the bottom of page two. It covered page one with a leisurely account of the opening of the British Parliament, a long book review of the third volume of Fritz Valjavec's ten-volume Historia Mundi and a discussion of German-Russian relations...