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...pictures of life in America and England as a whole make the most effective anti-western propaganda mainly because they use excerpts from classic novels of western literature. Russia's favorite books in English are Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Grapes of Wrath, Vanity Fair, Dickens' books portraying working class life, and the works of Howard Fast, among others...
...Terrible Wrath. Callas had also turned bitterly against her mother. "I'll never forgive her," she says, "for taking my childhood away. During all the years I should have been playing and growing up, I was singing or making money. Everything I did for them was mostly good and everything they did to me was mostly bad." Mrs. Callas had moved back to Athens, was living there with Jackie, and very little money. In 1951 she wrote Maria to ask for $100, "for my daily bread." Answered Maria: "Don't come to us with your troubles...
Hastily, Munshi ordered the book withdrawn from sale and tendered an official apology: "I have the greatest regard for the Prophet." But the wave of wrath rolled on through India's 36 million Moslems. From the Ganges to the Indus, Moslem villagers stabbed Hindus, looted Hindu shops, stoned Hindu temples. Hindu townspeople fought back. In industrial Jubbulpore seven Hindus, Moslems and police died and 50 were wounded in one sanguinary knifing melee. In Khamgaon rioting Hindus broke into Moslem shops and fought with police; when the police opened fire five died. Some Hindu extremists, organizing a boycott of Moslem...
Continental Defense. In Mexico City, chronic church-robbers Ernesto Ruiz, Enrique Diaz and Salvador Monroy assured police that they always knelt before looting a chapel, added that they feared no heavenly wrath because: "God is too occupied with European affairs to pay any attention...
...regular Kansas Republicans make their moves slowly; they abhor violent change. Stunned by Hall's ax-wielding and pro-labor actions, they assessed the situation silently, then began moving Kansas and earth to throw the upstart out. Hall's right-to-work veto drew the wrath of the powerful Kansas City Star; his purge of old friends in the State Civil Service Board brought suspicious frowns; his meddling and muddling in legislative affairs ("I am the governor") stirred deep resentment. When Hall called recalcitrant legislators "s.o.b.s" to their faces during a bitter legislative rhubarb early this year...