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...Showman. But when Jeffers became U.P. president in 1937, Big Bill developed a broad streak of Hollywood showmanship, a liking for lavish dinners -and the publicity and good will they brought the U.P. When he was crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), an honor given each year to a leading citizen of Omaha, he decked himself out in silk knee breeches, a 35-lb. train, and a crown perched on the side of his head. His own battery of cameramen were on hand to take his picture. So attired, Jeffers presided over, and paid for, a dinner...
Would the Argentines, who had declared war on the Axis only four months ago, be allowed to keep the U-530 and its Nazi crew? Said Argentina's Acting Foreign Minister César Ameghino: the problem would be resolved "in a spirit of full cooperation with the United Nations...
...resolution, even Argentina's Acting Foreign Minister, César Ameghino, purred: "A courteous and honorable formula" that permits Argentina to "go ahead in search of satisfactory solutions...
...complicated poker game of Argentine politics, Vice President Juan Domingo Perón shuffled offices like a deck of cards. Out of the Cabinet last week went Foreign Minister Orlando Peluffo. In as Acting Foreign Minister came César Ameghino, considered a temporary appointee. In eliminating Peluffo, a stiff-necked nationalist, Perón had eliminated his last important opponent in the Cabinet. The wily Vice President could now proceed with his program of stabilizing Argentina's Government, improving her foreign relations and perhaps one day achieving U.S. recognition...
...That trip would have been as short-lived as the Maharajah's memory had it not been for the use Forster made of it. He studied India and the Indians, rulers and ruled. Out of these, and by the gift of some moment of inspiration that lifted his sar donic talent to genius, Forster wrote A Passage to India. Its history has been a 3 remarkable as the book itself, or its author...