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...Brazilian Congress seemed to agree with Rio's press. "We gave our support ... to the Government's attitude toward Russia," cried Senator Ivo de Aquino, "but that does not mean we condone acts of violence against any organization, particularly against the press, which by our laws is guaranteed full liberty." Following the outlawing of the Communist Party, Senator de Aquino had sponsored the Government's controversial bill to toss Communist jobholders out of elective office. Now that bill faced a tough battle...
First day of the conference the Ministers met for three and a half hours; called on Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisha Cvetkovitch; lunched with Prince Paul, Senior Regent, and Princess Olga at their white castle overlooking the Danube; left calling cards at the homes of Co-Regents Dr. Ivo Perovitch and Dr. Radenko Stankovitch and of Dr. Vladimir Matchek, the Croat leader. Second day they talked again, dined at the Officer's Club, made pleasant, diplomatic speeches. Third day they conferred again, went back home...
...huntin', shootin' and fishin' aristocrat of old England is Esme Ivo Bligh, 9th Earl of Darnley, a product of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, a major in the R.A.F. right through World War I. Last week he startled the Empire by rising in the House of Lords to urge that Great Britain should try to make with Germany an immediate peace without victory...
Regents: Prince Paul, Dr. Radenko Stankovitch, Dr. Ivo Petrovitch...
...sportswriter in the London Sporting Times wrote a facetious epitaph for English cricket, announced that the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. Any chance that Britishers would ever stop relishing this grisly little quip was effectively destroyed when England's dashing Ivo Bligh, who captained a team that beat Australia the following year, brought back an urn full of real ashes. He explained that when, after the final match at Melbourne, English ladies had celebrated the victory by running out onto the field and setting fire to the stumps, he had carefully collected the remains...