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...their country at any time. "That is sacrilege, sacrilege!" he would mutter, and his own deep conviction was enough to spur French pride. He had his small vanities: uniforms tailored by Lanvin, an insistence on low-numbered license plates. Général de Théátre the cynics called him, but if De Lattre's triumphs were invariably spectacular, it was simply because he saw no reason why heroism and high purpose should be hidden under a hypocritical bushel of false modesty...
...anniversary of their sweep to power. The first thing the guests learned about Chinese Marxism was that when it came to lodging and victualing them, at bowing favored guests to ringside tables and stashing the rest behind potted palms, the Chinese showed as much talent as the maître d'hôtel of any decadent capitalist nightclub. Guests were divided into five classes. Class A got Peking's luxurious Hotel Wagon-Lits. Class B was put up in spacious villas such as the outlying Sapphire Bright Farmstead, once the home of a rich family. Classes...
After all, the conflict in Korea is one of the U.N. against Communist aggressors, no matter how large a part tRe U.S. plays in the actual fighting. Unless and until the General Assembly can be persuaded to sanction the military measures advocated by MacArthur, any attempt on our part to carry them out takes the chance of converting the war into one of the U.S. against North Korea and China ... It is by no means established that Russia would be as cautious in opposing the U.S. as she has been in opposing the U.N. in Korea...
Montemezzi: L'Amore del Tre Re (Sesto Bruscantini, bass; Renato Ca-pecchi, baritone; Amedeo Berdini, tenor; Clara Petrella, soprano; Aldo Bertocci, tenor; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 4 sides LP). A powerful and passionate performance of Montemezzi's opera about a blind king who throttles his adulterous daughter-in-law. Chiefly remarkable for the beautiful bass singing of the king (Bruscantini). Recording: good...
Died. Pierre Roy, 70, whose gaily colored, meticulous paintings of unfamiliarly arranged familiar objects,won him recognition as a petit maìtre (Little Master) of modern art; in Milan, Italy...