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Meanwhile, the King's fellow plotters set a trap for Antonescu's leading collaborators, summoning the first by telephone and forcing him on arrival to call up another. Four or five arrived and made calls, among them the War Minister and the Prefect of Police. All were imprisoned within the palace grounds. That night Mihai proclaimed Rumania's surrender to the Allies and the overthrow of Antonescu...
...Pacelli did not neglect Vatican City. About the time that Pius XI appointed Pacelli Prefect of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter's (guardian of Vatican buildings), Mussolini banned the Catholic Boy Scouts and started to wipe out Catholic Action in Italy. The Pope wrote an encyclical (Non abbiamo bisogno) attacking the Fascist action, but since the Fascists controlled all the telegraph lines and cables to the outside world, Mussolini was in a position to read and reply to the encyclical before the world read...
...honor shining and renewed since his towering public stand against Vichy (TIME, Sept. 21), Edouard Herriot would not yield any small part of it. When the prefect of the Rhōne police department asked him, in his home, for "an engagement of your honor in writing" to stay in France, he refused...
...came to the best loved man in Brazil: Pedro Ernesto Baptista. Years ago, when Getulio Vargas began his revolution, Pedro Ernesto, a surgeon, used his own hospital's ambulance to run machine guns to the Vargas contingents massing at Minas Geraes. When Vargas became President, Pedro Ernesto became prefect of the Federal District (Brazilian equivalent of mayor of the District of Columbia). This was a job which gave Pedro Ernesto the chance he had wanted: he labored to improve conditions in Rio's slums; he built schools, free clinics, city hospitals...
Robeson, who states that his production of this play is still far from prefect, and who is experimenting to work out new ideas all the time, was entertained as guest of honor, with Margaret, Webster, Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagen, and other members of the cast of "Othello" at a cocktail party given jointly by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Signet Society...