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...while Italian journalists hissed from the galleries, a slight, regal figure appeared before the League of Nations in poignant protest against the invasion of his country by Mussolini. That year Emperor Haile Selassie, a proud ruler who lived to see his country free once again, became the first African leader to be TIME'S Man of the Year. Since then, Africa has been making history on its own, awakening the rest of the world to Africa's own awakening. TIME cover stories illustrate the way the story has developed. In 1952 there was Daniel Malan, the dour Boer...
...which, like the service veterans, had to reconvert to peacetime production. Afraid that federal subsidies would lure idle vets to campus, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins warned that vets would breed "educational hobo jungles." Sociologist Willard Waller, recalling that World War I Veterans Hitler and Mussolini first recruited veterans, wrote ominously: "Veterans have written many a bloody page of history, and those pages have stood forever as a record of their days of anger...
...news of the upset spread in Montevideo, a delirious mob, waving handkerchiefs and banners of white, the National Party's color, rallied round a ramshackle old mansion, pushed through moldering ground-floor rooms littered with photographs of Uruguayan heroes and of Mussolini, surrounded a brass bed where an emaciated old man lay, his revolver and Gaucho knife handy on the night table. "Patriarch," cried a leader, "we bring you victory!" Luis Alberto de Herrera, 85, the cantankerous spellbinder chief of the Nationals, bounced out of bed and spun about in a round of backslapping...
...regimes have an understandable tendency towards self-perpetuation, and are, in general, reluctant to give up power. Once in, it is almost impossible to dislodge them; when they do leave finally, the situation is not much better than when they took over. There is no lack of instances: Hitler, Mussolini, Peron, Nasser, and even Kemal Ataturk. It is indeed ironical that even Ataturk was not able to instill a democratic spirit amongst the Turks, nor prepare Turkey for democracy, with constitutional rights and safeguards, as daily events there today illustrate...
Died. Breckinridge Long, 77, Missouri-born lawyer, horse breeder, bon vivant, art collector, moderately pro-Mussolini U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1933-36), twice (1917-20, 1940-44) Assistant Secretary of State, lifelong Wilsonian, internationalist Democrat who was among the leaders of the Roosevelt-for-President forces at the 1932 Chicago convention; after long illness; at his sumptuous country home, Montpelier Manor, near Laurel...