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...body snatchers signed themselves "Democratic Fascist Party," a blackshirt lunatic fringe. But when rumor spread that the Democratic Fascists would ecstatically hoist Mussolini's remains on the Piazza Venezia's cenotaph, in view of Fascism's most glorious balcony, the police put on extra guards to repel a repulsive resurrection...
...auditorium will serve for official ceremonies, press conferences, radio and television broadcasts, private and public meetings, movies and social affairs. Be sides a stage which can be lowered out of sight on a hydraulic hoist, it will have two soundproofed radio booths and an elevated booth for photographers...
When the Japs overran Peiping in 1937, Yenching, just five miles away, became an oasis of free learning: the Japs then were too sensitive to U.S. opinion to move in. But they ordered President Stuart to hoist the puppet-regime flag and to give personal "thanks" to the Jap militia for the invasion. Dr. Stuart refused, and got away with it. For three years before Pearl Harbor he was used to transmit peace feelers between the Chinese and the Japs. At 8:20 a.m., Dec. 8, 1941, Dr. Stuart's freedom ended...
...also a week when conflict was farthest from the common will of com mon men. Plain Russians in Moscow, bursting with good will, impartially hoist ed British and Russian soldiers and car ried them through Red Square. U.S. sol diers and correspondents in Germany found only the warmest friendliness when they managed to break past official barriers and meet Russian soldiers. Hundreds upon hundreds of letters came every day to the U.S. delegates at San Francisco, saying that the conference must find a way to peace. Ordinary Britons and Americans wanted as never before to under stand Russia, and found...
...introduce contemporary British music to Americans, just as he has introduced it to Australians, New Zealanders, Swedes, Palestinian Jews and British war workers. Pleased to find U.S. familiarity with the works of Sir Edward Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance), he hopes to whet a U.S. appetite for Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, William Walton and John Ireland...