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...preliminaries. In Washington they had just signed a treaty of mutual assistance between the U.S. and the Philippines. At the Presidio in San Francisco, the envoys of the U.S., Australia and New Zealand listened to the U.S. Sixth Army band play God Save the King and The Star-Spangled Banner, then signed a mutual-defense pact...
...Communist picnics and celebrations. But early this spring, after a bad fall, she began to fail. As she lay in her hospital room in a half-coma she repeated, over & over: "There is no country like America, the good old U.S.A." At times, she sang the Star-Spangled Banner-all four verses...
Eventually, he got into combat. In June 1942, Colonel Stalin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for bravery in combat, in 1944 was mentioned in his father's Order of the Day, again for bravery. Said Pravda: "He has continually made a brilliant record in heaviest fighting." Vasily got the Order of Suvorov, 2nd Class, and command of the 16th Air Division (50 planes), based at Dallgow Field near Potsdam. Red airmen say that he just about ran the entire 16th Air Division, since its nominal head, Colonel General Leonid Rudenko, carefully deferred to Joe Stalin...
...breaking off the talks, represent the Communists as "patient," the U.S. as "power mad." The London Daily Worker printed a photomontage showing five smiling world leaders sitting around a conference table: Truman, Stalin, France's Schuman, Britain's Attlee and Red China's Mao Tse-tung. Banner: THESE FIVE MEN CAN MAKE PEACE. Caption: "This is the picture the world is waiting...
...nations (including Socialist Britain) and representatives of Socialist groups exiled from Spain, Argentina and Communist countries (including Yugoslavia). It was the eighth international meeting of Socialist parties* since World War II. At one point, four young Germans in blue shirts advanced to the platform bearing a huge scarlet banner on which the words Sozialistische Internationale were emblazoned in gold. But the old red flag was not what it used...