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There had been a council of war at Rideau Hall over Commonwealth defenses. Most urgent subject: the 3½-year "state of emergency" in Malaya, where Communist terrorists 1) had taken more than 3,000 lives; 2) were costing $150,000 a day to combat; 3) threatened tin and rubber production, Britain's best dollar earners. A few months before, Communists had ambushed and killed High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney, the topflight colonial administrator who had been sent out to put order into Malaya's civil service. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "The trouble [has been] not only...
Much of the blame for this film must go to director Harmon Jones who seemed to have no scuse of transition and the intelligent use of fading shots. Perhaps the most amazing break in this very chopply arranged tin comes near the end when what is supposed to be a tender courtroom scene suddenly turns into a burlesque show with Miss Gaynor's legs in the center of the screen...
...went on a one-day hunt with Tom Armstrong, neighbor of King Ranch Chief Robert Kleberg Jr. After Miller dropped his first wild turkey with a shot through the neck, Armstrong, thinking it a lucky shot, politely hailed his marksmanship, poured a toast of bourbon in a tin cup. A second turkey, shot through the head, called for another toast. After Miller had shot a deer through the neck and another in the head, there wasn't much left of the bourbon bottle...
Sister Aidan, a 33-year-old Irish Dominican nun, and a physician set off in her tiny English car, to take baskets of food to her Negro patients in the rowdy South African city of East London. At the entrance to the segregated Negro "location" -a maze of tin-can shanties where every other baby dies at birth-she found herself in the midst of a bloody pitched battle between East London's white cops and a mob of tribesmen. The police had broken up an illegal Negro prayer meeting; the result was a race riot which blazed...
...example, Chile's new president made campaign promises to cancel Chile's Mutual Security Treaty, renew diplomatic relations with Russia, and allow the country's Reds to come out of hiding. The Bolivian government, which kicked American investors out of the tin industry, told the people that American refusal to pay a "fair" price for tin is at the root of their ecomic disaster. A flood of Communist and nationalist propaganda ruined our bid for a defense treaty with Mexico. Throughout Central and South America, in fact, politicians have found that denouncing the Yanqui pays off in votes. If such...