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...tone poems, seven symphonies, countless songs and choral works. He attempted an opera with no success ("I like opera very much, but opera does not like me"). His imagination seemed to flag. He published his last works in 1929, retired to Lake Tuusula as one of the venerated elder statesmen of symphonic music...
...conference began, Colonel Sumual carefully disguised himself as a Chinese merchant and made a secret trip from Celebes to Sumatra to confer with his fellow rebel colonels. They decided to attend the conference only if Premier Djuanda and Mohammed Hatta would guarantee their personal safety. This the two statesmen agreed...
Action & Reaction. Military moves, except in direct response to military moves by the Soviet-armed Syrians, were less likely than an economic and political quarantining of Syria. But Syria's own trumps are also economic. One thought that gives Western statesmen worry is what would happen if Syria were to cut not only her Iraqi pipelines but also the Tapline route from Saudi Arabia (see map); these pipelines carry one-third of the Middle East's oil output. If Egypt chose to close the Suez at the same time, the West would really...
...distinction was the capture of a small hill 48 hours after the armistice.) In March 1949 Kuwatly was ousted in a bloodless revolt led by a Kurdish colonel. Two more revolts followed and the second brought to power hard-eyed little Colonel Adib Shishekly, who favorably impressed visiting Western statesmen. But his ironhanded dictatorship earned him innumerable enemies, and in 1954 another army revolt sent him scurrying off to Beirut under safe conduct. He is now variously reported to be in Beirut, Paris or Saudi Arabia, and is invariably accused of masterminding every plot against the regime...
...kept Mary Queen of Scots prisoner, came Burke, Fox and other generations of Whig and Liberal leaders of empire to talk of cabinets and kings. Today, long after the Whig decline, Chatsworth preserves its influence in other ways: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is only one of several British statesmen married to a Cavendish...