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...anti-Communist Britain, the first Red chief of state ever to visit the country. For both guest and hosts, it was a visit not of sentiment but of self-interest. The British hoped to exploit Tito's break from Moscow and to fix him solidly in the anteroom of the Western alliance. Tito was out to get political and economic value for his heresy against Moscow...
...cold and colorless "100% Stalin man," has been given unfettered authority to discipline 6,880,000 members of the Russian Communist Party, and to weld together even more tightly the parallel monoliths of party and state. Wielding such power, Khrushchev has taken his place in the Kremlin's anteroom alongside Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov and Lavrenty Beria...
...finish of the zy-nation Western Hemisphere Labor Union Conference in Rio de Janeiro, the delegates were invited to the Cattete Palace to meet President Getulio Vargas. After waiting two hours and 20 minutes in a palace anteroom, Delegate John L. Lewis grumbled: "I never even kept a coal operator waiting more than two hours." At the meeting a few moments later, Vargas said to Lewis: "You look exactly like your pictures and cartoons." Replied Lewis: "Well, you look just like your pictures. I'd know you anywhere." The exchange ended when Vargas added, "They tell me you like...
...maintain control of the 1950 district conventions, the C.I.O. equipped important Wayne County meeting places with goons. The Fifteenth Congressional District convention, for example, was held in the headquarters of a U.A.W. local. Delegates were received in a small anteroom where half a dozen factory workers watched while credentials were checked. If a delegate passed, he was allowed to proceed through a gantlet of guards, one of whom was armed with something resembling a baseball bat. If the delegate was considered unfriendly, he might be seated on the convention floor with a husky C.I.O. "guardian" on either side. With...
...Buckingham Palace, small groups of people with deep concern written on their faces gathered from all over London. As two Coldstream Guards in top-heavy busbies and flaming tunics paraded back & forth on sentry-go, the people talked among themselves in the hushed tones of relatives in a hospital anteroom. "He hasn't looked well for the longest time," said one old lady with an air of authority. "He must be very sick, God bless him," said another...