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...journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro government . . ." Jules Dubois. chairman of the I.A.P.A. Press Freedom committee, reminded Matthews that the I.A.P.A. had fought equally hard against Dictator Juan Perón of Argentina. Marcos Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela, and Fulgencio Batista of Cuba. Matthews appeared before the convention in an attempt to explain himself. "We are not supporting [ Castro ], we are opposing him." said Matthews. "We have a different concept of the historic phenomenon taking place in Cuba than most of you have...
...stroking his beard, smoking a ten-inch cigar, wearing the uniform of a Union general and looking for all the world like an actor dressed up to play Ulysses S. Grant. There too was doddering old Nestor, also wearing the blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan War had turned into the U.S. Civil War, and before the play was over, muskets banged, cannon boomed, and that old states-righter, Hector, lost his bridgework to six Greco-Yankee bayonets...
Molotov stared at Raab through his pince-nez, and let him wait a spell in Moscow. Presently, for reasons that Raab professes still mystify him, the Russians consented to give Austria the state treaty that they had denied it for ten years. Molotov personally went to Vienna to sign the document, and when he did so (with a U.S.-made, gold-plated fountain pen at 11:34 a.m. on May 15, 1955), it marked the apogee of Julius Raab's career...
...supposed to be "The Year of Education" in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Last week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." The announcement was made by Cuba's Agrarian Reform Chief Antonio Núñez Jiménez in a speech to a crowd of gun-toting militiamen. Added the Reformer: "We will erect the most formidable execution wall in the history of humanity...
...early collector of Americana, and a bookseller who loved books too much to sell them. At the University of Pennsylvania young Rosenbach slighted his courses but stored up an amazing knowledge of books and their contents. While working for his Ph.D.-later he sported his doctorate and his pince-nez to much the same effect-he set out to compile nothing less than a comprehensive bibliography of English literature...