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Taking over the club's monthly magazine, Revista do Club Militar, the Communists quietly converted a staid review of tactical problems and social functions into a party-line organ. Revista editorials blasted the U.S. and U.N., called the Korean campaign a war of "Wall Street imperialism," described U.N. troops as "butchers," and criticized Brazil's government for cooperating with the West...
...precocious son of a Madrid journalist (at seven, he had memorized whole chapters out of Cervantes), Ortega was no mere academician. In 1923 he founded the powerful Revista de Occidente, which became the meeting place of Madrid's intellectuals. He wrote on everything-from Kant's philosophy ("my house and my prison") to donkeys and Don Quixote, art and music...
...Conference on Modern Language Teaching in 1942, and vice-president of Institute International de Literature Iberoamericana, 1940-1942. He has been chairman of numerous conferences and committees on Latin-American affairs since 1939. In the literary field he has been Associate Editor of "Hispania" since 1942, Associate Editor of "Revista Iberoamericana," 1940-1943, and Co-General Editor of "Handbook of Brazilian Studies...
...learned war by rote. They train endlessly, until they have memorized all they should know. Officers are unsparing in training their men, to a point which U.S. trainers would probably think insane. In 1930 naval maneuvers near Saishuto (according to a Japanese officer's article in the Spanish Revista de Aeronautica), Japan's present Commander of Combined Fleets Admiral Yamamoto, then captain of the carrier Akagi, launched 30 torpedo planes in a gale to give the men practice in heavy-weather launchings. They all launched, but not one got back to the ship...
...centerpiece of a display in a bookstore window on Carrera Séptima was that issue of En Guardia whose cover was a color photo of F.D.R. against a background of the Stars & Stripes. The legend: "No se venden; ni la revista ni F.D.R." ("Not for sale; neither the magazine nor F.D.R...