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...final Olympic basketball game between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: I happened to sit behind the Red China delegation . . . They were applauding both teams, when just before halftime a comrade with an Olympic uniform (I believe from Bulgaria) came over and set them straight. From then on, the applause went strictly to the Russians...
...Losses. Ike calculated with grim arithmetic the free world's recent territory losses to Russia. In Europe: Latvia, Estonia, Poland, East Germany, East Austria, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania, with a total of 94 million people. "All these people are blood kin to us . . . The American conscience can never know peace until these people are restored again to be masters of their own fate...
...seriously even the slightest rise in temperature in the Balkan tinder box. Last week diplomatic pulses in half a dozen world capitals thumped over a frontier fracas on a half-submerged sandbank in the unnavigable Evros River which, in one ten-mile stretch, forms the border between Soviet-dominated Bulgaria and U.S.-protected Greece...
Russia, Red China, North Korea, Poland, Rumania. Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia had come not to praise the International Red Cross, but to divide it. Peking's delegation took the lead with a gross but expected attack on the U.S. Said Peking's "report" to the Red Cross: ". . . the germ warfare started by the American Government has failed to achieve its purpose...
...mayor, proclaimed this week the traditional "Olympic truce" (a throwback to the B.C. days when the Greeks called off their local wars to celebrate the games), there were a few inevitable rhubarbs. Both Nationalist and Red China, along with East Germany, suddenly and belatedly demanded admission for their teams. Bulgaria, which drew Russia in a first-round soccer match, complained bitterly when a soccer "unknown," The Netherlands West Indies, drew a first-round...