Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, the head of Guatemala's junta, called Britain's promise of self-rule "a flagrant violation of the sovereign rights of Guatemala." He broke off diplomatic relations with Great Britain, and an editorial in Guatemala City's La Hora spoke grandly of war: "We haven't fought a war for half a century. The English always have been good soldiers, but that doesn't mean they are any more masculine than we are." Unrattled, the British last week went blithely ahead with self-government plans for British Honduras...
...full of totally rational publishers who never did a damn thing for their papers. Under Phil Graham, we at least had the potential of being a great newspaper, nationally and internationally." So spoke a Washington Post & Times Herald staffer last week, and many another stricken colleague echoed his impulsive obituary. If their reactions seemed curiously defiant, it was because their energetic, engaging boss, whose rapidly expanding press empire consisted of the Washington Post, News week, two art magazines, a pair of profitable TV stations and a burgeoning news service, had for more than a year been suffering from a mentalailment...
...Shaw's "Lesson." For him, the present was the past. Shaw put it explicitly in a second prologue that he wrote in 1912 in the form of a sermon delivered by the god Ra to the audience: "Men twenty centuries ago were already just such as you, and spoke and lived as ye speak and live, no worse and no better, no wiser and no sillier." And in a postscriptal Note to the play Shaw said, "The notion that there has been any ... Progress since Caesar's time ... is too absurd for discussion" (but he goes on to discuss...
...free man again, Raymond Lopez walked to MacArthur Park, wiped off a bench and sat down. Wearily, sorrowfully, he spoke of his departed friend Mrs. Hanush. "What is wrong," he asked, "with helping things to live...
...great Communist switch of the Popular Front period, when Russia was severely threatened by the Nazis, ordered Communist parties everywhere to make common cause with the hither to despised Social Democrats, and even with the bourgeois. Maxim Litvinov, voluble ambassador to the U.S. and the League of Nations, spoke as eloquently as Khrushchev does today about "the peaceful coexistence of two systems-the socialist and the capitalist." After the cynical nonaggression treaty with Hitler killed off the Popular Front but could not prevent the German attack on Russia, Moscow once again became democracy's ally against a common enemy...