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...clock in the afternoon of Aug. 20, 1940. Leon Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & then to enjoy that most bourgeois of bourgeois things: a garden, not for food, but for pleasure. Geraniums were sprouting from pots, roses bursting in bloom, chickens cackling in coops, rabbits copulating in warrens, birds twittering with sunset nervousness in trees that overhung the 20-foot garden wall. The trees cast flickering shadows across the patio. The sky over Mexico City was sharp, clear blue, with puffy...
...patio below, Dr. Leopoldo Melo, head of the Argentine delegation, slouched in a wicker chair, gesturing with small, delicate hands to emphasize his soft-voiced Spanish sentences. Behind him as interpreter stood handsome, black-haired, flashing-eyed Luis Mariano Zuberbuhler, secretary of the delegation. No newcomer to Pan-American conferences, a stanch U. S. friend is scholarly Buenos Aires Lawyer Melo, onetime Radical Antiper-sonalista (conservative) Deputy & Senator, onetime Minister of Interior. At the Panama meeting last autumn he went over the head of Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, appealed directly to President Roberto M. Ortiz, threatened to resign unless...
Disguised as Mexican policemen, 20 men armed with Tommy guns broke into the patio of an isolated Coyoacán villa one night last week. They overpowered five guards, threw an incendiary bomb into the patio, and in the light of its flare proceeded to shoot up all the rooms giving on the courtyard. Then they went inside the house and, standing outside the master's bedroom door, whaled 300 rounds through it. After five minutes of incessant firing, the attackers made off, and Mexico's most famous exile, Leon Trotsky, rose with his wife from the floor...
Between sessions Chambermen gathered by the goldfish pool in the Chamber patio, compared their New Deal-inflicted wounds. One noon some 100 of them played hookey from a Chamber luncheon, paid an adulatory visit to G. 0. P. Candidate Bob Taft. Close to 400 Senators and Representatives also had meals with the Chambermen, who have a new respect for politicians, since Congress has begun to act as a check on the New Deal...
Last week pretty Mrs. Jay ("Dolly") O'Brien, one of the holders of the women's hoard that is a 20% slice of outstanding U. S. corporation stocks, was in Palm Beach dancing with her socialite husband at the swanky Patio, walking with her bulge-clipped English poodle on her South Ocean Boulevard estate. Her amiable, globe-trotting son, Julius ("Junky") Fleischmann, whose father, Julius Fleischmann Sr., died (heart attack) on the polo field, was ailing in his moated castle in Cincinnati. And her onetime brother-in-law, husky Major (in the A. E. F.) Max C. Fleischmann...