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Complaints & Exasperations. There was little doubt that one top Briton had a complaint: the U.S. should have passed the word to a soldier it implicitly trusts, Field Marshal Alexander, who was touring the battlefront and visiting his old friend Mark Clark just before the bomb bays were loaded. But Alexander himself, though surprised by the raid, said he approved of it. That set off Bevanite demands for Alexander's head...
...London's King George's Park one sultry evening last week, a pasty-faced young Briton kept an appointment with Pavel Kuznetsov, ferret-faced second secretary of the Soviet Embassy to Britain. The young fellow was William Martin Marshall, 24, a $21-a-week radio operator employed by the Foreign Office to transmit clear and coded messages to British missions abroad. Once a clerk in Britain's Moscow Embassy, he had been meeting Communist Kuznetsov clandestinely for several months...
Engrossed in their conversation, neither Briton nor Russian noticed three burly eavesdroppers lurking near the park's deserted bandstand. But as Marshall turned to go, the three men barred his way. Chief Inspector William Hughes of Scotland Yard's Special (counterespionage) Branch, stepped up: "You are William Martin Marshall?" The young man nodded. "We have reason to believe," said Hughes, onetime bodyguard to Prime Ministers Churchill and Attlee, "that you have committed offenses under the Official Secrets Act. We are arresting...
...enemy." Marshall denied everything, and went to jail to await his trial. The Russian was safe from arrest, under diplomatic immunity. Scotland Yard would not say whether Marshall had given away any important secrets; handling code as he did, he was in a position to. He was the fourth Briton to be branded as a spy since World...
...human wreck that hobbled into the British occupation political office in Hannover and asked how to go about starting a political party made little impression-"An interesting but completely nondescript fellow," says a Briton who was there. Like all who spoke for a bona fide anti-Nazi group, Schumacher was told he could go ahead. He rallied Socialists around him, whipped up interest across Germany, paved the way for a national convention, the first for the Socialists since the Weimar days. There was no question who was boss, but there was a basic decision to be made...