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...Communist underground. He buried his identity so successfully that some of his accomplices thought he was a Russian; one of them was positive that he was a Russian ex-colonel. The little boy who had peddled vegetables in Lynbrook became a skillful and consecrated agent of a Communist "apparatus...
...apparatus' assignments was to infiltrate the U.S. Government with Communist Party members. One day in Washington, in the summer of 1935, a dumpy little man, feeling self-conscious in the first white linen suit he had ever worn, confronted a tall, well-dressed young Government attorney. The little man was Whittaker Chambers; the other was Alger Hiss...
...baker-a calm, pudgy little man who kept an old pipe in the pocket of his untidy blue serge suit. But his looks were deceiving. Whittaker Chambers, a senior editor of TIME, a Quaker, was a brilliant intellectual. Before 1938, he had been a Communist courier for the Soviet "apparatus" in Washington...
...Stavroula wide open to more party blackmail. Soon she was in up to her neck. Together with one of the city's big booksellers, an official in the Bank of Greece, the owner of a smart perfume shop and others, Stavroula formed a link in Athens' Communist apparatus. Each shop was used in turn as a yavka (Russian for front) for shipping recruits to guerrilla bands in the mountains...
...King's doctors believe they have caught the illness at an early stage. He is up & around Buckingham Palace every day, limping slightly but not using a cane or crutch; usually he rests his foot on a pillow while working. Main medical treatment is described as an electric apparatus (which stimulates circulation), fitted around the thigh. Other possible treatments: rest in bed if there is pain; hot & cold baths; heat; drugs that dilate the arteries; a nerve-cutting operation...