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They Cried for Peace. Always, in Communist whimsy and in hard-boiled oration, the dove cried "peace." In eight languages the signs on East Berlin buildings proclaimed: "Peace, Pax, Paix, Paz, Pace, Frieden, Béke, Mir." There were peace days, peace weeks, peace bicycle races, peace dances, peace cigarettes. Japanese could buy a sedative called the Sleep of Peace and enjoy it on a Peace mattress...
Irving Florman, self-made inventor (cigarette lighters, mine detectors), onetime Broadway play angel and songwriter (Chauve Souris), resigned last week as U.S. ambassador in La Paz. His diplomatic career had lasted 22 lively months. A heavy Democratic campaign contributor, Florman maintained generally good relations with the Bolivian government. But his relations with his own Government in Washington were always testy. After his appointment by President Truman, he spent a full year at La Paz without confirmation by the Senate; the appointment was not actively pushed by the State Department. Recalled for "consultations" with the President last May, he signed...
...Manhattan last week came one of the Hemisphere's foremost political refugees, Alberto Gainza Paz, editor and publisher of Buenos Aires' La Prensa before it was throttled by Juan Perón. Next month Manhattan's Freedom House will honor him with a bronze plaque, "in grateful recognition of devotion to a free press and inter-American friendship." U.S. newsmen found Gainza Paz neither bitter nor bowed. "The real democratic Argentina," he said, "will survive." And La Prensa, he added, will also survive: "You can expropriate the machinery of a newspaper but not the spirit. Freedom always...
...succeeds never sought the Foreign Minister's job at all. An ardent nationalist intellectual with good family connections in the Peronista Party, Hipólito Paz asked Perón one day in 1949 to make him vice consul in Mallorca so that he could write a novel there. Perón, having just sacked overambitious Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia, was at that moment in the market for a Foreign Minister of a more unobtrusive type. He picked Paz, who has made a modest success in the job as a 100% loyal Peronista...
...father of two little girls, "Tuco" (Glowworm) Paz plays the guitar, dances to flamenco tunes, likes bebop, reads Faulkner and Dos Passes. He is the author of a prizewinning book of short stories (The Abyss), detective yarns, unpublished poetry, three volumes on Argentine government and law, and some of President Perón's most flowery speeches. During the recent Washington conference of Foreign Ministers, Paz managed to make quite a few hemispheric friends without alienating Perón. Despite the bruising that capital correspondents gave him over the La Prensa issue, he took such a shine...