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...even the delegates to the Paris conference could say for sure what UNESCO was all about until after they had decided on a director-general, an 18-man executive board and a plan of action. If the optimists were right, UNESCO might become a battering ram, capable of knocking down national barriers to international understanding. If the cynics were right, UNESCO would be just another grandiose 20th Century balloon, with a big cheer at the ascension but in the end just a bag of wind. One basic drawback: Soviet Russia so far has not joined...
...this way: the Negroes had been caught trying to ram a handkerchief down a white man's throat. The white man said he was being beaten and robbed. The police chief of Mount Pleasant said he had got there just in time, or the white man would have been killed. The Negroes had been kicked and pummeled by an angry group of vengeful whites, had been saved from immediate lynching by being hustled off to jail. But a menacing mob was forming outside, and everybody knew what that meant...
...needed Cuba's sugar and would pay for it. Since July, the U.S. had boosted the price about 20% *-something like $30,000,000 in Cuban pockets. Then President Ramón Grau San Martin announced that his Government would take the increase, use it to subsidize food imports so that Cubans might get their rice, beans and jerked beef cheaper...
Death and Detection. The boy's death did it. President Ramón Grau San Martin fired his chief of police, placed the police under an Army general...
...pint-size Portuguese colony on India's west coast, suffered an invasion last month. The invader was Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, the Indian National Congress' well-known Socialist, who was promptly jailed when he tried to hold a political meeting, then deported. The Congress' Goan leader, Tristão Braganza Cunha, was also jailed, and tried by a military court. Last week he was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, most of which he is expected to spend in Portugal's tropical African colony, Mozambique...