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...September night in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko stuffed some damning papers inside his shirt, and walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa to crack open Canada's spy case. Last week, with the movie The Iron Curtain (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) opening in a dozen Canadian cities and Gouzenko's new book This Was My Choice (Dent Ltd.; $3) going on sale, Canadians checked on the cast of characters in their spy drama...
...more than romance on Michael's mind. From the day of his arrival in London he had been holding high level talks about his job in Bucharest. The Rumanian Communists' power grab was complete, and Michael, king in a Communist-dominated country, had become a royal cipher. The stunned immobility with which Rumanians watched their beloved National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu be crushed under Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker's steamroller told Michael he had not long to reign-even as Pauker's virtual prisoner...
...Britishers, Louie is Britain's much-talked-of "little fellow," hard-pressed but phlegmatic; to U.S. readers, most of whom do not know that the strip is a British import, he is the baffled cipher* who sits on every park bench. Hanan draws Louie once a week for London's whopping (circ. 4,500,000) weekly, The People, draws him five other days a week for the people across the Atlantic...
...Germans from North Africa and blocking any program of collaboration." Nine months before the U.S. went to war with Germany, the U.S. agreed to ship Weygand limited supplies of coal, sugar, tea, etc. In return, Weygand let U.S. vice consuls work with French Resistance leaders and report in cipher to Washington. In this and other ways the ground was prepared for the military invasion (Operation Torch) the following year...
Convict the Guilty. Eighteen months have elapsed since the young (28) cipher clerk, fed up with Communism, stuffed 100-odd secret documents inside his shirt and walked out of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa. It took him 36 frantic hours tb persuade anyone to listen to his shocking story-that a handful of traitorous Canadians had sent to Moscow information of the greatest importance about radar as well as samples of precious uranium 235 from which the atom bomb is made...