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...book is never better than in the account of the last days of Mussolini and his doxie. Utterly defeated, universally despised, the sick and whipped dictator began mouthing extracts from a Life of Jesus and discovering "surprising analogies between his own fate and that of Christ." Too vain to surrender to the British, too indecisive to accept German protection, Mussolini blundered into the waiting hands of his bitterest enemies, the Italian partisans. By the time they dragged him, in pouring rain, to the wall against which he and Claretta were to be shot, he was much too obsessed with fear...
...agreement provided that Cambodia and Laos were to be "neutralized."' But explained Tep Phan politely, Cambodia did not want to be neutralized. The agreement banning any foreign bases violated Cambodia's sovereignty, would deprive it of allies if Cambodia were invaded. French. British and Russian stormed in vain. Molotov denounced the whole thing as an American trick. Bedell Smith was called and asked to reason with the awkward fellow. Tep Than would not budge...
...bloom eternally in the hearts of men and monkeys. Three weeks ago, despite the weather, six bonnet monkeys decided to give up the comforts of a warm cage in the Auckland Zoo and take up residence in a pine grove just down West View Road. Zoo authorities tried in vain to lure them back, but the free souls in the pine trees only mocked their efforts...
Others were not so fortunate. Many, like Richards H. Crawford, went through "several years of minor odd jobs with liberal stretches at leisure." Warren W. Anthony "searched in vain for two long years for a job connected with radio. There was not an opening anywhere during those depression years." And Richard Boonisar in the five years after graduation "changed jobs three times as the financial world and its values crashed all around...
...Britons who thought they could do business with Chou were guilty of short sight and shorter memories. Nine years ago there were about 600 Western businesses in China, with total investments of around $1.3 billion. These have since dwindled to a handful of firms which are trying in vain to give up their holdings and get out. Two years ago Britain decided to liquidate more than $840 million of assets in China. And in Britain itself there is a growing group of ex-China hands whose companies and personal possessions had been seized. Unable to pay huge fines levied...