Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents...
...When the war ended, Louis St. Laurent wanted to get out of politics. His living expenses were more than his ministerial income ($10,000 as minister, $6,000 as an M.P., $2,000 car allowance), and he had even had to give up some insurance policies.* But Prime Minister King had other plans...
...past two months, as they have each summer since the war, modern Romans and visitors have been swarming out to the Baths of Caracalla, but for a different reason. Three hundred and fifty thousand strong, they have gone to the majestic reddish brick ruins to see Rome's summer opera, one of the most dazzling sights, if not sounds, in the world...
There are seats to match. When Mussolini started summer opera at the baths in 1937, he ordered a theater for 20,000, was seldom able to fill it. At war's end, Romans reduced the seating capacity to 10,000 so that back-row listeners could have a chance to hear...
Rome's opera lovers, reviewing progress since the war, and eyeing their arch operatic enemies in Milan, were delighted. Said one: "We are at least improving artistically while La Scala is living largely on its reputation...