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...Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation-and virtual retirement-in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants diplomacy, Welles was widely admired in Latin America...
...Thanks to mechanization and automation, Sweden's S.K.F. ball-bearing factory has tripled its prewar production with no increase in labor force...
...finest racing stables; of a heart attack; at Cable Beach, Nassau. Financial chief of a famed British banking clan-and cousin to World War I's angriest young man, Poet Siegfried Sassoon-Sir Victor parlayed a fortune originally built in the opium trade into ownership of much of prewar Shanghai...
...Mussolini's prewar heyday, when 20 lire equaled one U.S. dollar, a small-time lo'ser unwilling or unable to pay his fine could work it off in jail at about $2.50 a day. Postwar laws boosted fines in proportion to the lira's value of 620 to the dollar, but set the price of a day's work in the pokey at a measly 64?. The latest revision of the jail scale retroactively boosts the value of a day at hard labor to $8. Wardens all over Italy spent most of a week working over...
...within eight days; after a long circulatory illness; in Mechlin, Belgium. A lifelong political activist known to his flock as "the Iron Bishop," Cardinal Van Roey excommunicated World War II Belgian quislings, unsuccessfully opposed the abdication of ex-King Leopold, and denounced with equal fervor his nation's prewar fascists and postwar socialists...