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None of his own totalitarian activity, which his strong right-hand man, Major General Mirza, defines as "controlled democracy," appeals much to Ghulam Mohammed. A man disabled by a stroke and half-paralyzed, trained by crack British civil servants to rule by law, Ghulam does not really like being a dictator. He sometimes talks about reconvening the Constituent Assembly-which he dissolved last October-and about calling for Pakistan's first general elections. Ghulam's advisers argue, however, that restoring democracy would mean restoring chaos. The Federal Court ruled fortnight ago that Ghulam's "controlled democracy...
...great names of Victorian science, philosophy and theology find a place in Biographer Irvine's brilliant study. Thomas Henry Huxley, who was Darwin's right-hand man and champion, actually takes up half the book. And yet, as Huxley himself readily admitted, it is Charles Darwin who dominates the scene...
...State Department advanced a plan consistent with Eden's policy. Against the State Department view stood Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau and his right-hand man, Harry Dexter White, later to be revealed as an accomplice of a Communist spy ring. They wanted Germany to be economically gutted and turned into a country "primarily agricultural and pastoral." Harassed between Morgenthau and Secretary Hull, Roosevelt ended up with a plague-on-all-plans attitude...
...Admiral Spruance's right-hand man, Manila Embassy Counselor William S. B. Lacy, will become U.S. Ambassador to Korea, replacing Ellis O. Briggs, who will go to Peru. Coloradan Lacy, 45, worked his way up in Washington's wartime bureaucracy before joining the Foreign Service, wears a Homburg and a natty mustache, is regarded as a diplomatic comer...
Died. João Alberto Lins de Barros, 57, Brazilian Diplomatic Minister and foreign-trade expert, longtime right-hand man of the late President Getúlio Vargas ; of can cer; in Rio de Janeiro. Joao Alberto played an important role in the 1930 revolution that brought Vargas to power. During the 1 5-year dictatorship that fol lowed, he was chiefly responsible, as federal interventor of São Paulo and chief of police of Rio de Janeiro, for Vargas' survival in the face of repeated internal