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...Moscow, an observant reporter remarked on the unusual bustle of activity around the U.S. military attaché's office; he was immediately pledged to silence. Out at Sheremetyevo Airport a few hours later, a British newsman spotted the U.S. air attaché's car and came up to cadge a ride to town. Then he spotted two strangers in the back seat, decided not to intrude-and missed the story of his life...
...long hour's drive back to the U.S. embassy. No one could say when their plane would be ready to leave, and every passing minute increased the possibility of a news leak. The two men were spirited into the ninth-floor apartment of the embassy's air attaché, Colonel Melvin J. Nielsen. Embassy electricians were ordered to do phony "maintenance" work on the front-entrance elevator to keep it temporarily out of commission and discourage visitors. It was twelve hours later before the men finally got off the ground and headed for Amsterdam. They had barely left...
...mind, the United Arab Republic's religion ministry will this year open a broadcasting station called the Voice of Islam-to do for religious affairs what the famed Voice of the Arabs now does for Cairo's political propaganda. Nasser also plans to appoint a religious attaché to every U.A.R. embassy or legation in Africa...
...anathema to conservatives, had promised an even greater controversy. But in his appearance before the Foreign Relations Committee, Bowles at times sounded almost like the late Foster Dulles. On the question of recognizing Red China: "I don't believe we should . . . The conditions that Mao Tse-tung would attach to any cooperation would demand that Taiwan become a part of Red China . . . We obviously are not going to give up Formosa." On Formosa itself: "We are going to defend Formosa, whatever the cost, whatever the risk." But Bowles did enter a plea for a "broader" U.S. policy toward China...
...attach to Latin America an importance second only to defense," he said time and again. Last week, only a few days before Inauguration, President-elect Kennedy was still without an Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs-and not for lack of trying. After two months of beating the bushes, the hunt was so badly thwarted that he was forced to ask the Eisenhower Administration incumbent, Thomas C. Mann, to stay on temporarily until the right man could be found...