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...families, which caused violent opposition as men, women, children and old people were herded into separate barracks, and 2) great unrest over wages and work, from peasants laboring sometimes from 19 to 20 hours a day. The Central Committee seemed surprised to learn that many local leaders were rude and dictatorial, and that they warned commune members to keep their mouths shut and "do what you are told...
...Suisse, the other a top, unnamed official of the Union de Banques Suisse. For Switzerland, whose banks have for so long prospered in peace or war (other people's wars) on the secret accounts of the high and mighty, Franco's arrest of Swiss bankers was a rude and unexpected blow. Said an official of Société de Banque Suisse: "We are taking a very serious view. The matter concerns all banks and our entire banking system...
...best writer seems to say that sex is not the most urgent business of mankind. His heroines (or victims) are a widowed mother and her daughter trying to find a quiet place to sit out the war. They are ill-used in turn by fellow countrymen so rude and crude that only a fellow Italian would dare describe them. Finally they return to Rome with wounds deeper than those they thought to escape...
...Rude," "uncharitable," "vulgar," cried Italian editorialists. Four Italian war veterans' associations demanded government "action" against Monty. Vicenzo Caputo, president of the Italian Nationalist Association, vainly challenged Monty to a duel, and an old-line monarchist demanded that the duffle coats known in Italy as "Montgomerys" be banned. One Italian newspaper recalled Ernest Hemingway's definition of a really dry martini-15 to 1 -called a Montgomery because those were the battle odds Monty demanded...
...take sides with the East, the West, or stay out of the cold war altogether?" In Caracas 68% felt that their country should be neutralist, in Mexico City 66%, in Buenos Aires 62%, in Montevideo 51%, in Bogota 49%, and in Lima 34%-"This," said Grace, "is a very rude awakening to the realities." Grace's suggested solutions: ¶ A Secretary for Hemisphere Affairs modeled after Britain's Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations. ¶ Tax and other incentives to encourage U.S. capital to help build Latin America's industrial plant and diversify her one-crop economies...