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...Iron Curtain." The congress was not all repentance. Pavel Yudin of the Soviet Union delivered a morale-building backslap: "The Central Bolshevik Committee greets the Italian Communist Party, which . . . deserves to be ranked as the vanguard of democratic progress. . . ." For ten minutes the Italian delegates roared: "Viva Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir...
Molotov's fellow delegates could hardly get used to his frequent smiles and handshakes, suspected that at times he even hovered on the brink of a backslap. Cracked he: "This is my first vacation since the Revolution." Oscar Englund, a waiter at the Waldorf, found Molotov gracious enough to give an autograph-though Englund later lost his job for his audacity. "So what?" said he. "That's history, what...
Alias Schacht. To the man of the field and to the great mass of city workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government...
Broadcasting celebrated its 25th anniversary year last week. Kiwanis International, which tactfully considers all success deserved, gave every broadcasting station in the U.S. and Canada an impartial, luncheon-hour backslap. But Ohio State University's Institute for Education by Radio took a long look at the birthday boy and handed him a lemon...
...been something to see: his blond hair, worn actor's length, combed casually over the back of a Barrymore-ish collar, his gay bow tie propped at an insouciant angle, striding merrily and importantly through the Senate at the noontime opening of a session. He gives a backslap here, a glad hand there, pausing to drop a witticism at this Senator's desk, an encouraging word of counsel at another's, to confer now gravely, now casually -dynamic, carefree, yet occasionally sober under the solemn responsibilities of statesmanship. Here, it seems from the gallery, is the very...