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MUSSOLINI (304 pp.)-Paolo Monelli-Vanguard...
...MAGIC FISHBONE, by Charles Dickens (Vanguard; $2.50), frames a Cinderella story and a magic wish round the theme that "when we have done our very, very best . . . and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others." In a handsome collaboration between centuries, and in the first new U.S. edition in 25 years, Illustrator Louis Slobodkin adorns Word Magician Dickens' fable with just the right visual touch of fairy-tale grandeur...
...More than 40" members of the anti-Red "Youth Vanguard Society" in southern Kwantung and Hunan provinces were arrested and accused of operating in at least six cities (Peking People's Daily, April...
...midweek the Guatemalan government announced that it had captured documents and secret codes, and Interior Minister Augusto Charnaud MacDonald portentously declared: "A plot-one of the best-organized conspiracies in the history of the country-has been unearthed. Those arrested were the vanguard of forces based on foreign soil." The plot, whether real or fancied, was convenient, and it roused the regime's supporters to demands for action. The Communist chief of the peasants' union called on his followers to be ready to join a rural militia to shoot antiCommunists. And Communist Congressman César Montenegro Paniagua...
What have the foreign investors, chiefly the U.S. (66% of the total) and Great Britain, reaped in return? "Immense oil resources for strategic purposes," says Cooke, and "the firm establishment of Turkey as a strong and friendly vanguard of defense against Communism." Also, "Israel's support of the West, [which] is dependable, no matter whether or not that state is admitted into the Western alliance system." Gains "in Saudi Arabia have been considerable. Apart from the oil . . . they include an American air base at Dhahran...