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...caused by the behavior of students in Trieste's Slovene-language schools. It was far beyond anything in his experience as a fine arts professor in a Kansas university. On a visit to the schools he had been shocked to see "walls just plastered with inscriptions reading 'Viva Tito,' 'Viva Stalin,' 'Down with this and down with that.' " When students left their classes to join a demonstration staged by the pro-Tito Italo-Slovene Anti-Fascist Union, it was too much. The Captain issued a decree closing the city's three Slovene...
...ridden (as an observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given 100 Havanas by the Minister of Agriculture, he responded with a testimonial: "They have a good effect on my temper...
After one brief day in his Argentine Elba, the federal prison on Martin Garcia Island, Juan Domingo Perón overturned the moderates who had forced his resignation and vaulted back to the balcony of Government House. Thousands of Perón-struck workers cheered: "Viva Perón! Viva labor! Viva Argentina!" Colonel Perón did not bother to reassume his old offices or even to rejoin the army. Seven days after his return, he was still Argentina's master...
...Buenos Aires for 26 years. The same day, while the victory celebrants were whooping it up elsewhere, a score or so of pro-Government hoodlums, "uniformed" in white raincoats and armed with brass knuckles and revolvers, marched down the Calle Florida, Buenos Aires' Fifth Avenue. They shouted "Viva Perón!" "Down with democracy!" "Down with the Jews!" They smashed the windows of pro-Allied shopowners, and looted their window displays...
...President. In Buenos Aires' Parque Retiro, there was a different kind of demonstration. PerÓn henchmen had invited 2,000 guests to a dinner to inaugurate a rump Radical (centrist) Party, announce Juan PerÓn's bid for the Presidency. There were shouts of "Viva PerÓn," "The nation is with...