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Last week, after many months of increasing Caiapó depredations, the State of Para Chamber of Commerce sent an angry telegram to Brazil's Congress, "transmitting the intense clamor of the state's population against the murdering of rubber tappers and nut gatherers by the Caiapó Indians." It noted that "at a time when Brazil needs its rubber for its economy, security and defense," production in the area had dropped from 2,000 to 400 tons a year as frightened cabodos refused to venture into Caiapó territory. Worse, the Indians, in addition to bows & arrows, clubs...
...citizenry and allowed to wear the coveted yellow sweater (le maillot jaune). The eventual winner of the yellow sweater stands to gain some 5,000,000 /rancs ($15,000) in prize money and commercial premiums. When Italy's Bartali won in 1948, the Pope himself sent a telegram of congratulation and blessing...
Major General George Pearkes, the Tories' military critic, read a telegram from the China Officers Guild at Hong Kong reporting that the Canadian-registered, Chinese-manned Ming Sung ships were loading war materials for Red China at Macao. Tory Leader George Drew demanded that the Canadian registry for the ships be withdrawn. Said Drew: "These ships . . . assist the enemy at a time when that enemy is sending its troops to fight our troops in Korea...
...pleasant, unaffected young woman," said London's Daily Express, "endears not only herself but her father to the millions in Europe." Added Paris' Le Monde: "She is not pretty, but her smile . . . and her complete lack of affectation have won everybody." Back home the New York World-Telegram and Sun agreed: "After some of the dames who've represented American womanhood in Europe's salons and saloons, she must be like a breath of air straight from the clover patch . . . We do not want Europeans to think all our women do is go around marrying Moslem...
...week's end only three clues had turned up. Burgess' mother got a telegram from Rome ostensibly sent by Burgess; MacLean's wife and mother received similar telegrams from Paris. MacLean's message to his wife read: "Had to leave unexpectedly. Terribly sorry. Am quite well now. Don't worry darling. I love you. Please don't stop loving me. Donald." Handwriting experts examined the original forms, found they were written by neither Burgess nor MacLean, and "probably not by an Englishman...