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Raging Socialist Katsu Nomizu dashed up to the Speaker's rostrum, kicked Liberal Speaker Senzo Higai smartly in the shin. "Baka!"*(Idiot), screamed Liberal Shu Kara, flooring Nomizu in the aisle. "Stop! Quit! Disreputable!" shouted members from both sides of the house. But in a moment Japan's first postwar Diet session resembled a brawl in a frontier saloon, as members traded insults, shook one another, swung futile fists...
Throat and Backbone. Turkey was defiant. Recalling earlier Russian demands in Armenia and at the Dardanelles, General Kiazim Kara Bekir said Turks would fight for every inch. He added: "The world must know that the Straits form the throat of the Turkish nation and the Kars Plateau its backbone." The Turkish National Assembly at once voted his army more funds...
...sacrament of another church was administered last week in the Church of England's Westminster Abbey. The occasion: the baptism, in Eastern Orthodox ceremony, of the three-month-old Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, son of young King-in-Exile Peter, heir of the Kara-George-vitches. Gold-braided George VI attended the ceremony as godfather. He thus fulfilled an obligation assumed in 1944 when he was koum (best man)* at the King's wedding to Princess Alexandra of Greece...
...guerrilla fighting. His valor and the skill of his soldiers captured the world's headlines. To much of the outside world, Mihailovich became a symbol of freedom.*But to many Yugoslav patriots, intellectuals and peasants, he became a symbol of the discredited Belgrade government clique and the Kara George dynasty which first gave Yugoslavia dictatorial King Alexander, then, after his assassination, a Fascist-minded set of regents while King Peter was growing...
...wearing the Obihch medal for "personal courage." In 1914 the Austrian attack again broke up school and Mihailovich was again wounded, received the Order of the White Eagle. On the eve of the Salonika offensive he rejoined his company and finally returned to Serbia wearing its highest decoration, the Kara George Star with crossed swords...