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They Were Sure. Events moved swiftly. There began a painstaking matching of the scientific evidence with intelligence reports. AEChairman David Lilienthal was summoned from Martha's Vineyard, where he was vacationing, for hurried briefing. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was called in. Some time last week the scientists reported...
For guidance and argument, Bevin & Cripps had a 15,000-word brief approved by the British cabinet. When they reached New York this week, they would have further briefing from Sir Henry Wilson Smith, the chief of their advance working party in Washington.
Commander in chief of the food drive, as he is of the government's many other battles, was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Together with his deputy, Vallabhbhai Patel, Nehru pulled India through the first two years of independence. During Independence Week, Nehru was his usual supercharged self. He sat...
At noon sharp one day this week a lumbering C-82, also known as the "Flying Boxcar," flew into Berlin's Tempelhof airfield, carrying five tons of steel wool and textiles. The American crew had some coffee, got a weather briefing for the return flight to Wiesbaden. Exactly a...
People who have seen him in action call him the greatest one-man show this side of Winston Churchill. He has Churchill's sense of being on intimate terms with history. He also has his sense of danger and drama. He wraps himself in thundering generalities; he sometimes sounds...