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In Buicks, Cadillacs and Maybachs, the captains and the kings arrived. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky rode in a '39 La Salle with baby-blue window curtains. General Lucius Clay was late, bounded up the steps whistling a vague tune. With Britain's Sir Brian Robertson and France's...
This paradox, and the propaganda piffle which surrounded it, was bound to baffle almost anyone in or out of this world. Even such worldlings as the U.S. Embassy staff in Paris were confused-Ambassador Jefferson Caffery last week found it necessary to summon them all to a special briefing session...
"We Put on Brilliant Parades . . ." Any briefing on the state of the world in the spring of '48 must start with the way the vast battle between Communism and democracy is going. There could be no doubt that Communism had suffered setbacks. It had been stopped in Western Europe...
But he was in regular touch with Washington. Each morning he slipped away to the telephone for an up-to-the-minute briefing on the State Department's incoming cables. What he heard last week was the succession of hard facts which precipitated the President's call for...
The presidential household also includes such diverse personalities as weather-beaten, 72-year-old Admiral Leahy, still technically the President's chief of staff, who gives Mr. Truman a daily 15-minute briefing on strategic problems; kindly, dignified William D. Hassett, a Roosevelt pensioner who handles general correspondence; and...