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...such ultra-slick modern methods, the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) came into pow er in Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...
...later the Big Three had moved on. Stalin unquestionably had gone back to Mother Russia. Early this week Roosevelt and Churchill turned up in Cairo to make big medicine with President Inönü of Turkey. Present also was the Russian Ambassador to Turkey. After a three-day pow-wow this new foursome issued a terse statement which spoke of "closest unity," "identity of interests" and "firm friendship...
...Rights of the Individual: The power of the State "does not imply a pow er so extensive over the members of the community that in virtue of it the public authority can interfere with the evolution of that individual . . . decide on the beginning or ... the ending of human life, determine ... his physical, spiritual, religious and moral movements." This would mean "falling into the error that the proper scope of man on earth is society, that society is an end in itself...
Germans get more potatoes, fewer of the vegetables (such as carrots) which they dislike. Italians get more spaghetti, more flour for the solid Italian bread they bake for themselves. American officers of the guard are content to carry their own trays, but POW officers must be served by their own orderlies...
Planned as an officer camp, Crossville houses some 1,000 of these privileged prisoners, together with 400-odd enlisted POWs who serve as valets, waiters and cooks, according to the terms of the Geneva Convention. By this agreement, captives must be kept safe from "acts of violence, insults and public curiosity." They are prisoners but not criminals, can not be confined in penitentiaries, subjected to corporal punishment or any form of cruelty. They have regular complaint courts to vent POW frustration. They are still soldiers, maintain their own military discipline, salute only their captors of superior rank. They live like...