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...Like the vale of Kashmir, Gore Hall is now nestling in the middle of an armed truce. One day a recognized territory of Winthrop House, the next day it was a victim of one of the historical accidents which have brought such grief to Palestine, the Sudetenland, and Transylvania in recent times...
...Posket, Arthur Treacher give a very funny performance, demonstrating his flair for pantomime. Wilson Hall looks a very gay blade in an Eton jacket, as the 19- year-old 14-year-old; and Paul Ballantyne and Peter Temple make an excellent pair as Colonel Lukyn and Captain Vale. Sylvia Stone only slightly over-plays the more difficult role of Mrs. Posket only a bit too broadly...
...pandit was annoyed at Dixon's proposal that Kashmir be partitioned and announced it was "absolutely impossible" for the government of India to accept the mediator's recommendation that the famed Vale of Kashmir, strategic heart of the state, be placed under U.N. rule for a plebiscite to determine whether its population wished to join India or Pakistan. Nehru felt no qualms over Indian military occupation of parts of a state which has a 75% Moslem population. The presence of Indian troops was justified in the pandit's eyes because in 1947 the now-Hindu Maharaja...
That night 80,000 queremistas jammed the Vale of Anhangabaú, a grassy park amid São Paulo's skyscrapers. "Workers of Brazil!" boomed Getulio. There was a sigh from the crowd, and then a roar: "Getulio! Getulio!" He spoke for an hour, recited his "conquests" for Brazilian workers. If elected, said Getulio, he would back more social legislation. He would provide free land for the poor. He bore malice toward none...
...time Coriddi persuaded the new Christian Democratic government to put up 26 million lire to build a pipeline to Rocca Massima, whose people since the time of the Caesars had fetched water in copper vessels from three miles away in the vale of "La Femmina Morta" (the Dead Woman...