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Tall, loudmouthed Congressman Ham Fish, New York's gift to the isolationist cause, has some explaining to do this week. He must tell the stony, fact-minded Internal Revenue Bureau why he did not include in his 1939 income tax return a cool $25,000 he got from Rafael...
No patriots of Ecuador are more courageous, more gallant or more troublesome than the three rich and handsome sons of the late President General Don Leonidas Plaza.* Last week the eldest son, Galo Plaza, onetime Minister of Defense, was in exile in California. Once urged to declare himself dictator, he...
In 480 B.C., when the 1,000 Spartans and Thespians of King Leonidas held out for hours until every one had been butchered by the 10,000 Persians, the pass of Thermopylae, which lies not between two mountains but between a mountain ridge and the sea, was only 42 feet...
This, last week, the Deputies dutifully did. But not before a mob of Haitians had stormed into the Chamber through broken doors and smashed the Deputies' desks. The mob objected to Elie Lescot not only as Stenio Vincent's stooge but as too good a friend of the...
Recurrent dream of many a homeless European and most refugee relief organizations is of pioneering colonies in the New World where refugees may live off the land, build themselves self-supporting communities. So far the only place this dream has come even close to reality is the Dominican Republic, whose...