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...moving back to their old homes. The roads are safe. In this area the Huks are weaker, much weaker, than they were in the spring. All this is said with difficulty, in the hot, frame headquarters of an old prewar training camp. It is a surprise to the American visitor, who has supposed these islands to have been completely Americanized, that the colonel's English is as broken as his teeth...
Grieger was finally released from jail, but got into trouble again. In a Warsaw cafe one day, he stopped to talk to a British visitor who was sitting at a table with three pretty Polish girls and a Communist functionary. When the Briton proposed a toast to "these nice girls here" and the King of England, the Communist shouted: "We won't drink to the - King. It will be to Stalin." Says ex-R.A.F.-man Grieger: "I don't know what happened, but I slugged him." Before he could be arrested, Grieger ran. At the border...
...most characteristic thing about a police state is that people 'disappear,' " wrote Reporter Schmidt. "It is difficult for the casual visitor [to understand that] when he enters the office of a business associate the desk in the corner is empty because the secretary who occupied it was arrested last week, or that the girl at the opposite desk is the police spy who denounced her, and who will shortly make a report to the police on the visitor's conversation with the manager...
...friend of President Juan Perón's recently returned from a visit to the U.S. and paid a call at Buenos Aires' government house. Perón asked what the people in North America thought of his regime "Well, Mr. President," replied the visitor, "they are worried about the lack of freedom in the Argentine press." "What do you mean?" said Perón. "We have freedom of the press. Just look at La Nación and La Prensa. They attack me all the time. I read them every morning myself." The visitor answered: "This...
...Catholic Power," it would seem). The central character is a magazine publisher who is the Voice of Reason. His wife is the Eternal Hussy: the intelligent emancipated woman, who, while flaying with one hand the dragons her man must kill, still holds fast to the bedpost. There is a visitor to their household who writes modern Gothic novels about an evil spirit named Slime Shindigs, and who can see a little blue light hovering over the house. His function is to play Cassandra, which he does by jamming about the blue light and his damn Shindigs (which, spelled backwards...