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...looking for suspicious movement. The Komi receive a reward for every escaped prisoner they hand over to the police. Yet prisoners still try to escape. When caught they are beaten to within an inch of their lives, sometimes stripped of their clothes and sent to solitary confinement in the bor, a prison within the prison, but with a difference: it is unheated...
Government by Calculation. Churchill's personal relations with Stalin remained friendly, even affable, to the end, and he never ceased to praise Stalin as a great war leader. But Churchill was outraged by the Russian betrayal of the patriot Warsaw Poles under General Bor-urged to rise by the Red radio, and then methodically slaughtered by the Germans while the Red army halted contemplatively for weeks just a few miles away...
Franklin Roosevelt was also indignant, though less so than Churchill. When the two Western leaders asked the Kremlin leaders for explanations, Stalin first answered that the strength of the Bor partisans had been "exaggerated" (therefore the uprising was unwise) ; then Vishinsky described them as "adventurers," and finally Stalin called them "criminals." Churchill and Roosevelt wanted to drop arms and supplies to the beleaguered Warsaw fighters, then land their planes on Soviet territory (because of the long distance from Western air bases). Stalin refused permission. Churchill was so angry that he considered threatening a cutoff of the Allied supply convoys...
Cautious Contact. What might the balloon barrage accomplish? Crusade for Freedom is not, so far, suggesting revolt, for revolt-like General Bor's in Warsaw -can be premature and disastrous. Instead, the balloons are an imaginative experiment in contact, bearing a message of hope until the time might be ripe for other words...
Lieut. General John B. Coulter, 59, deputy com mander of the Eighth Army: West Texas Military Academy, 1911; cavalry lieutenant on Mexican bor der, 1916; aide to commanding general of 42nd Divi sion in World War I; commander, 85th Division in Italy, World War II; commander, XXIV Corps occupying Korea, 1948; commander, I Corps 1949-50; returned to Korea last August as the late General Walton Walker's troubleshooter-in-chief, later became commander of IX Corps...