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...chief sources of weapons for both sides, the U.S. immediately decided to cut off their supplies. But there were still plenty of opportunities for troublemakers to fan the flames by pouring in arms-and a shrill chorus of support for Pakistan suggested that such accomplished chaos lovers as Red China and Indonesia might do just that...
Later, Joan and husband showed up at a Sydney restaurant for a press reception. Before anyone could ask a question, Bonynge delivered a shrill lecture: "I will not allow myself and my wife to be persecuted by orangutans of the press," he shouted. "We have been most vexatiously wearied by the impertinence of photographers at the airport, when we had given firm instructions that the press was not to know of our arrival. We do not believe in the divine right of the press...
...domestic, the conventional evidence is damning enough. There's fascinating account of the New Republic's vascillating attitude toward World War One, presenting the dilemma of a magazine that simply couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a liberal government's House-organ or a conservative administration's shrill and ineffectual opponent. There's a fine chapter on Colonel House himself, the intellectual pimp of Wilsonian progressivism, and his relations with the journalist Lincoln Colcord. Lincoin Steffens is taken to pieces for walking into his "scientific" study of corruption with pretty clear notions of what he was going...
...told "exclusive," Patria announced that "Hitler and his Nazi assassins were disciples of the Yankees. The Yankees have shown themselves to be better teachers of crime than Trujillo." La Nación, the official four-page tabloid voice of the rebel government, can be almost as shrill. It attacks junta troops as "genocidas" and "torturers...