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Unlike the Turks, who number few Communists in their midst, the Greeks welcomed Ike with infinite security precautions. Even the high-ranking officers and officials who met him at Athens airfield were kept to assigned positions. Communist leaflets in the city warned: "Out of here, you butcher Eisenhower! Greek children will not be your victims!" But friendly faces far outnumbered the threats. Next day, King Paul gave Eisenhower the Grand Cross of the Order of the Savior, and his deputy, General Gruenther, the Grand Cross of the Order of George...
This week once again the great American taxpayer-that irascible and yet docile composite of the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Senator Taft, John L. Lewis and the fellow next door-was working over his income-tax return. He did not do the job happily, or-in a year when he couldn't quite decide whether his country was at peace or at war-even very patriotically. The feeling that an enormous eye in Washington watched him as he wrote down his deductions was often all that kept him from cheating-and sometimes that...
...inflexible austerity," of sacrifice, of less food and more work. For the famed Republic of Beef, the meatless day announced four weeks ago had seemed almost like a joke in poor taste. Now Peron decreed two meatless days each week, and to make the rule stick, he ordered butcher shops to shut down. Packing plants will also close one day a week, and on another day process meat for export only...
...true I have no shirts to wear; It's true my butcher's bill is due; It's true my prospects all look blue-But don't let that unsettle...
Rudolf Slansky, a tall, red-haired butcher's son from a village near Pilsen, was a devoted Communist. A member of the Czech party since he was 18, he made a fine hatchetman-unmoved by compassion, unhampered by principle, unburdened with personal loyalties. Unlike so many Czech politicos who fled to London in World War II, he went to Moscow. There he lived for six years in a special compound reserved for the elite among foreign Communists. He became a better Muscovite than a Czech, which made him a fine teammate for another graduate of the special compound, Klement...