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Political Primer. If the stalemate was ever to be broken, one of the two would have to crush the other politically. Most of Argentina's political intricacies can be understood in terms of their rivalry-the fact that in Argentina, as in the U. S. in the past four years, the President and Vice President are on opposite sides of the political fence. Though Argentina is split into as many factions as pre-World War II France, most of its politicians belong to one of two main groups: the Radicals of President Ortiz of the Conservatives of Vice President...
Thumbing his Nazi primer last week, Major Vidkin Quisling, Führer by grace of Hitler in Norway, sought a totalitarian catchword. Freedom was out; so was the attractive proposition, guns v. butter, because Norway had neither. Then he found it: Lebensraum. But where? Turning his globe, Führer Quisling saw a large expanse of territory upon which no dictator had planted his flag-the South Pole...
Such complex gibberish annoys Surgeon Moses Benmosché of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. Surgeon Benmosché believes that patients have more guts when they are told more about them. This week Dr. Benmosché published the first popular primer of surgery: A Surgeon Explains to the Layman (Simon & Schuster; $3). His book is chock-full of bold diagrams, simple descriptions of operations. Dr. Benmosché's bookside manner is calm and reassuring, should serve as a tonic for healthy-minded patients. Sample information...
Congressman Dies this week published The Trojan Horse in America, a restrained, informative primer about U. S. Communists and Fascists, what they are, how they work. Dies describes as Trojan Horses...
Thus spoke balding, be-jowled Walther Funk, Adolf Hitler's all-powerful Minister of Economic Affairs, in a 45-minute harangue last week to U. S. foreign correspondents. His pointed primer of Germany's world economic aims put U. S. businessmen on notice-that if Germany beats England and consolidates Europe, U. S. trade with the area that has been its biggest market will thenceforth be conducted, if at all, on Nazi terms...