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...pioneer aviator, Alberto Santos-Dumont, who at Bagatelle, France in 1906 was the first man to fly a heavier-than-air machine in public demonstration (two years before the Wright brothers).*The memorial, in Rio de Janeiro's Aeronautic Museum, was a 10-inch, gold-plated sphere, supported by a winged, kneeling figure in wood. Suspended within the sphere was a crystal ball containing preserving fluid in which floated the cold, now colorless heart of Santos-Dumont...
Another dividend was also forthcoming. By one of the armistice terms, the Bulgars agreed to renounce all claims to Thrace, which is in Britain's Greek sphere of influence, evacuate all civilian Bulgars from the region. The Bulgars also agreed: ¶ To continue fighting the Germans. ¶ To renounce all claims to Yugoslav territory seized in 1941. ¶ To furnish food to Yugoslavia, Greece...
...Moscow, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill had agreed that Greece would be a British sphere of influence. In Parliament, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reported...
...capital, shown the Acropolis (unharmed by the Germans). While crowds were parading in his honor, an Army officer, who disliked being tagged a collaborationist, shot and killed a member of the EAM. To Britain's Foreign Secretary this punctuation mark was a reminder that Britain's Greek sphere of influence is far from tranquil. The week before, Athens' tumultuous liberation outburst had been cut short when the leftist EAM and the rightist EDES fought it out during the celebration. Score: ten dead; no wounded...
...Besides," said certain diplomats in deeply anonymous whispers, "we don't like such ganging-up. Any one of our countries may find itself in Argentina's shoes if it tries to get out of the U.S. sphere of influence or otherwise opposes the State Department. No one wants to prepare a scaffold on which he may be hanged." One diplomat quoted a Spanish proverb: "When you see your neighbor being shaved, prepare to lose your own whiskers...