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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appallingly--untrue. Burnham cries that we must first reach out to stop communism everywhere, supporting against it Chiang, France, a strong Germany. We should abandon all attempts to "get along" in the UN, make unilateral decisions and implement them with force. Next, we should take the offensive, drawing first Latin America and then other nations into our new "World Empire," suppressing communism as we go. At home, Burnham would have us illegalize the Communist Party and crush all its "fronts;" his black and white approach leads him to lump the Federation of Atomic Scientists with "The New Masses" in this...
Sailors' scuffles are a familiar story in many a port, and in Latin America they have often helped feed anti-U.S. feeling. The Pérez story was another case of a friendly visit marred by hoodlums in uniform. Said a Monte sidewalk philosopher: "It's a pity these sailors should have picked on Uruguay, the only country in South America that really likes...
Down Under. An immigrant from Russia, Subway Sam peddled papers on the tough streets of lower Manhattan, learned to use his fists so well that he has been using them ever since. (Last summer at Saratoga he flattened a Latin American who objected to his favorite song, South America, Take It Away...
...Latin American newspapers, La Prensa is about the hardest to coerce. It regularly prints more classified ads than any paper anywhere - an average of six pages a day, all bought in cash across the counter before publication. Display ads get the back pages. Thus, up to a point, La Prensa can tell industry and commerce as well as Government what it thinks of them...
Nevertheless, La Prensa is still a formidable institution. Foreign governments implicitly accept its news. Reporters work gladly in its clublike editorial rooms for less than they could get elsewhere. Its circulation paces the field in Latin America. Porteños guess that despite skying costs the paper makes a million and a half a year...