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...signs were big & small. One was a full issue of Collier's (see PRESS), which not only described a possible war with Russia, but, more significantly, also looked at the shape of a world in which Russia was no longer a threat. Another sign was the thunderous American Legion applause for General Douglas MacArthur and his insistent demand for a clear aim & end. Said MacArthur: "There must exist above all else a spiritual impulse-a will to victory." But MacArthur made it clear that he was not talking of a purely military victory; war with Russia, he insisted...
...Collier's Fifth Avenue headquarters, the mysterious project was called "Operation Eggnog." The man in charge of it was Associate Editor Cornelius Ryan, who for nine months acted as cloak & daggerish as if he were blueprinting an atomic war. That was just what he was doing...
Last week Collier's unwrapped its own private World War III, its "Preview of the War We Do Not Want." From the first shot "at exactly 1:58 p.m. G.M.T., Saturday, May 10, 1952 ... a terrible Kremlin miscalculation" (the Reds tried to assassinate Tito and occupy Yugoslavia), until the occupation of Russia ("The outcome was inevitable"), the Armageddon took a full, fat, 130-page Collier's issue. It also took a shining constellation of star writers...
...caricaturist, who came to the U.S. in 1940; of a heart attack; in New Canaan, Conn. Fascinated by the manuscripts of medieval monks. he made a career of the lost art of manuscript illumination. During World War II, he turned his hand to anti-Nazi political cartoons (for PM, Collier's, LIFE), later collected the best of them in a book, The New Order. Coming out next year: his edition of Arabian Nights...
With him he brought notes on the American delegation which he will use in an article next month in Collier...