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Liberally spicing their narrative with Eaton's peppery comments. Historian Louis Wright and Librarian Julia MacLeod (both of Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.) have written a brisk account of the first puny U.S. efforts to carry a big stick in world affairs. During the six rollicking years that he carried that stick, Consul Eaton had enough trouble, and made enough comments on it, to build up quite a legend...
Married. George Palmer Putnam, 57, author, explorer, wild-animal hunter, pet-collector, ex-Army major, ex-publisher, husband of Flyer Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in 1937 on a trans-Pacific flight; and Margaret Haviland, 36, U.S.O. executive; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Marino, Calif...
...Marino, Europe's oldest (1,600 years) and smallest (38 sq. mi.) republic, which nestles on an Apennine mountainside below Florence, became Europe's first liberated nation to hold a general election. Six months after they declared war on Germany* and sent their plumed, sworded, 950-man army into action on the Italian front, the San Marinese chose a new Grand Council. They voted resoundingly for the leftist "Committee of Liberty." Of 60 seats at stake, the Committee won 40 (Communists 18, Socialists 18, Republican Democrats 4). The remaining 20 seats went to the old, purged parties...
...that time, despite Fascist pressure, San Marino had remained neutral...
...mountains above Rimini the world's smallest republic, claiming to be Europe's oldest state, with 38 square miles of mountain territory and 12,900 inhabitants, accepted its fate with dignity. San Marino's Government decided that its Army of 78 men could not oppose the Wehrmacht, yielded to the German demand to open its roads. Allied artillery replied with gunfire...