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Tough, stone-bald, peasant-born Marshal Semion Konstantinovich Timoshenko is about as young a marshal as a great nation ever had. That is his advantage, for while not all young generals are geniuses, most of history's generals with genius have been younger men. It is many generations since Russia has produced a great general and perhaps...
Behind him was 36 years' experience for just such a job. When, peasant-born, sketchily schooled, he won his first Diet seat in 1904, Finland was still a grand duchy under the Tsar of Russia. As Finland won its independence, began to prosper, so did Kallio, becoming fifteen-time Speaker of the Diet, four-time Premier, and, finally, President...
Last week, dramatically affirming that the Plan still "represents my highest ideals," Strongman Batista suddenly announced that further legislation on it would be "suspended" until after the Presidential elections early next year. Reason for this unexpected move: squat, peasant-born Batista.has engineered the seating of five men in the Presidential chair and now hankers to fill the position himself. The Plan, criticized by a good many Cubans as an attempt to regiment all phases of their national life, is regarded by Boss Batista as too much of a controversial issue to push at the time of an election...
...converted to Catholicism 13 years ago after having dabbled in Socialism as a writer on the New York Call, in Communism as an employe of the old Masses and the Liberator. For almost five years her colleague on the Catholic Worker has been Peter Maurin, 60, a genial, peasant-born Frenchman who, for the sake of his principles, gave up giving French lessons, became a laborer at a boys' camp. In 1932, reading two of Miss Day's articles in Catholic magazines, he discovered they spoke the same language, and hastened to outline to her his ideas...
...Royal Jack Sprat and his Queen would not present an appearance more distinctive than do Their Majesties King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena. From the wild mountains of Montenegro, where women are not only women but Amazons, came Elena. Last week Her Majesty wrote to peasant-born Benito Mussolini with Amazonian directness...