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...years ago, after a "Communist-inspired" strike in his mines had been put down by soldiers, Bolivian Ambassador Patiño cabled to an assistant in La Paz: "Arturito, cause to be opened the doors of my house. I want the people to see the beauties it contains." The stolid Indians looked at the sculptured halls, the marble bathtubs, the Renaissance gilding, the tapestry-hung walls. They grew angry, scribbled insulting verses, pointed caricatures. The palace doors were closed and have remained shut since...
Defendants: Hans and Erna Haupt, Walter and Lucille Froehling, Otto and Kate Wergin. The men were stolid, pale, the women red-eyed from weeping, as the indictment against them was read: that they had "adhered to" an enemy of the U.S. by aiding Herbert Hans Haupt, one of the eight submarine-borne Nazi saboteurs captured last summer by the FBI, tried by military court (six, including Haupt, later were executed...
Millions of stolid Chinese soldiers have glared at the snarling jewels and glassy eyes of the marauding samurais (upper left) lunging through rich paddy fields. But millions have grinned at other posters on the walls of disemboweled buildings, posters including that of the artist who produced the little Nipponese angels (above). Peculiarly satisfying to the Chinese is also the kneeling statue (left) of Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold...
Fight. Strained, anxious, the Russians still held their morale high. A Soviet writer explained: "There is a point in all Russians beyond which they seem to become oblivious of pain and fatigue. Up to that point, they are stolid and slower to react than most Europeans. Beyond it, they perform feats of endurance far beyond the usual human measure." To survive, the Russians called for feats of endurance from their army and for feats of performance from the Russian workers...
From the Iberian Peninsula came huffs & puffs from a Class 4-F dictator, sour, stolid Francisco Franco. Throttled, starving, hate-ridden Spain, said he, must prepare to "fight a new war of a moral, religious, military and industrial character." Up went the temperatures of diplomats in the old and the new worlds. They wondered how long it would be before Franco, backed once more by friends Hitler & Mussolini, would: 1) attack Gibraltar, 2) draw neutral Portugal into the Spanish orbit...