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...statesmen (successors to Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes, rather than to Pitt and James Madison) were trying to unravel the real meaning of what happened when 17 men and a woman met at a hunting lodge in Miszlakowice, Poland, and there created a thing that Communists called the "Cominform" (meaning Communist Information Bureau) and which most of the rest of the world called the "New Comintern" or the "Little Comintern." To help them figure it out, the detective-statesmen had Dr. Watsons who were experts in everything from gamma rays to Lenin's writings. Piecing together a clue here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Diagnosis | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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