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As everywhere, the Russians rule through political terror. A refugee's testimony: "I know it sounds funny to you, but the fact is that to us who escaped to Poland, that country today seems, by comparison, the most wonderfully free, democratic country you could dream of. This is how...
"History offers each of its great challenges only once. After only one failure, or one refusal, the offer is withdrawn. Babylon, Athens, Thebes, Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short...
Extremist. In Chicago, R. B. Heehler got a ticket for speeding, 15 minutes later got a second ticket for speeding, four hours later-as he crept along, with vengeful caution, at 8 m.p.h.-got a third summons for impeding traffic.
Five years ago Lewis won a coal strike on the day the Japs struck Pearl Harbor. In 1943 he had called off a strike 15 minutes before Franklin Roosevelt went-on the air to make a personal plea to the miners to return. Last spring he had announced a truce...
So urgent had been the summons that Jacob Surits, suave, goateed Soviet Ambassador to Brazil, remembered only after boarding the plane that he had to be in Rio for the big Embassy reception on Nov. 7. At Belém he turned back for Rio, set off again for the...