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Slim, scar-faced Constantine Zinchenko was up against his toughest job. He was one man, and the press at Paris was 1,650 strong. Some reporters found it hard to believe that Russia cared one whit about world opinion; Zinchenko was proof that, for reasons of her own, she did...
In charge of the occupation is Lieut. Colonel Thurman A. Stout, whose briefing begins with an epoch several milleniums before Marx. In that dim past (so the legend goes), Cheju's founding fathers (Ko, Yang and Pu) emerged from three large openings in the earth to be joined presently...
Interviews will last approximately ten minutes, and the Committee plans to select the delegate either Wednesday night or very soon thereafter. Although no formal "briefing" for the individual chosen is planned, shipboard discussions and a New York meeting for the American group before the conference will trace the background and...
Breakfast-Table Briefing. Behind enemy lines on Guadalcanal, McGovern screamed Buddhist curses in Japanese, captured a few Jap prisoners to question. He crossed the Rhine with Patton's men, and later worked on the Potsdam declaration. But his biggest war job was in Washington. He had to get up...
There was that letter (addressed fraternally to "Dear N. Makin") from old-time Bolshevik Dmitry Manuilsky, who as chairman of the Ukrainian delegation* ran the Russian show until Vishinsky finally arrived from his lengthy briefing by Stalin and Molotov. The letter asked Makin for a UNO probe of British activities...