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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest laws and reforms. The crowd approved several constitutional changes proposed by the ex-King. One severed Cambodia's last legal bond of allegiance to France by striking from the constitution the words "Cambodia is part of the French Union." "An independent country doesn't have to mention in her constitution the alliance she is free to enter or quit," Sihanouk said. Unanimously the multitude agreed and turned to the stickier problem of choosing a Premier...
Pearson also pictured Batista as a staunch foe of Communism, but neglected to mention that the President had legalized the Communist Party and won its support in the 1940 elections before finally outlawing the party. When Pearson wrote that "not even an armed sentry paced outside" the presidential palace-which is guarded night and day by up to six sentries in plain view-Diario National Columnist Luis Conte Aguero exploded: "Too ridiculous to comment." Although intensive security precautions are taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally...
Unfortunately for the case of Marlowe-as-Shakespeare, Hoffman fails to see that all four men at this strange meeting had been spies at some time. He also omits any mention of one of the keystones of any anti-Shakespeare theory, the unfinished play Henry VIII. For, accepting Hoffman's thesis for a moment, would it not have been impossible for Shakespeare to write anything at all after the "true" author, Marlowe, had really died...
...Doctors or Policemen? A psychiatrist named Walther Spielmeyer denounced the use of psychoanalysis on Dora as "mental masturbation." Jones himself reports: "I was forced to resign a neurological appointment in London for making inquiries into the sexual life of patients." By 1910 the mere mention of Freud's theories was enough to start the chairman of a Hamburg congress. Herr Professor Wilhelm Weygandt. banging his fist and shouting: "This is not a topic for discussion at a scientific meeting; it is a matter for the police...
...Father Agostino Gemelli, rector of Milan's Catholic University of the Sacred Heart flatly denies the possibility of extraterrestrial life: the Scripture makes no mention of it. Says he: "If God had created other men on other planets, these men would not be derived from Adam, and one would not be able to understand the logic of the divine plan of man's salvation ... To admit that the divine plan of salvation is illogical is the same as not recognizing the infinite wisdom of God. It is fantastic to suppose that God would place such men on other...