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...Premier's policies, deriding the fiasco of oil nationalization. Sayid Zia Eddin Tabatabai, onetime Premier and wily old politician, set up an opposition, revived his National Will Party. The Shah, who has been mum about his dislike of Mossadeq and his policies, last week made a public plea for national unity in which he said flatly that Iran was facing the worst crisis in her history...
...recorded that the Pope ever asked: "How many divisions has Joseph Stalin?" He knows that Moscow threatens the world not only with its armies but with its perverted faith. Last week, in a 10,000-word encyclical on the heresy of Monophysitism,* the Pope made a strong plea for unity among "all Christians" to throw back "the enemy from Hell." Said Pius XII: "Who is not horrified at the hatred and ferocity with which the God-haters in many parts of the world threaten to stamp out or uproot whatever is divine and Christian? Against this united front, those...
...principles, guided by none, and moved deeply only by a profound sense of the drama of his own life, Goering lived by whim, hunch, and egotism. He alone of the Nazi leaders could have signed the anti-Semitic N¨urnberg Laws and then, at his wife's plea, intervened to save a number of Jews from death and torture, chuckling playfully as he did so: "We had better put up a sign that my office will help all Jews...
...Scout parade compared to your triumphant and bloodless march through Spain . . . Not one person will stand in your way. My Lord, your moment has come. Spain is waiting . . ." Even the country's most ardent male monarchists were appalled. Said one: "Luckily it was a letter and not a plea supported by her presence and personality that reached the king. That woman is dynamite!" Dictator Franco's police thought...
...dress up his surrender to Tandon as a gesture for "unity," but his followers were not fooled. Last week two of his cabinet ministers, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (Communications) and A jit Prasad Jain (Rehabilitation) resigned from the Congress Party, but stayed on in the cabinet at Nehru's plea. (Their remaining in office, jeered Tandon, created an "impossible situation.") Other dissidents are sure to follow them. Said a veteran Congressman: "Nehru has no guts. He dislikes all that Tandon stands for, but he will campaign to get Tandon's nominees elected to Parliament to insure his Prime Ministership...