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Died. James Garfield Randall, 71, eight-volume biographer of Lincoln (Lincoln and the South, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman) and longtime (1920-49) professor of history at the University of Illinois who pictured the Civil War not as an "irrepressible conflict" but as the tragic error of a "blundering generation"; of leukemia; in Urbana...
...Death claimed the first President of a new nation-as well as the Australian statesman who once had his secretary tell reporters, "As soon as he's died, he'll notify the press." Name...
...Ambassador to Japan. Allison taught English in Japan in the late 1920s before entering on a foreign service career. He visited the country in 1951 as John Foster Dulles' right-hand man in the Japanese Treaty negotiations. On the side, Allison is an authority on 18th century British Statesman Robert Walpole and his letter-writing son Horace...
...government, often brushes the whole matter off as "witch hunting" and a shrill campaign . . . against 'spies and saboteurs' who are widely imagined to be imperiling the security of the U.S." Added the chorus of criticisms of the U.S. are such anti-American weeklies as the New Statesman & Nation, which recently said of the indictment of Owen Lattimore for perjury: "Such blanket denunciations smack more of Prague than of the traditions of Western justice...
...last week Yugoslavia's Parliament met to select a President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were there any other nominations? asked Speaker Josip Vidmar. The Parliament roared with laughter...