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...good news last week. To most, the press law adopted by the De Gaulle government at Algiers last July, restricting the flow of world news into liberated France, sounded dangerously authoritarian. In Paris last week André La Guerre, director of the foreign press services of the French Commissariat of Information, announced that distribution of world news to French papers was no longer a monopoly of the official French Press Agency. That right, said La Guerre, has been extended to all news agencies of the United Nations...
...Russian plane from Cairo. Out stepped Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and five colleagues. Joseph Stalin's reception committee pounced on them, whisked them off in a big black official car to the official Guest House on Ostrovsky Street. Next morning the Poles dashed to the Soviet Foreign Commissariat, the U.S. and British Embassies. They dropped in at the Lenin Library, the Botanical Gardens, the Park of Culture and Rest. On the Kamenny Bridge Premier Mikolajczyk heard the boom of cannon announcing a Red Army victory. Said he : "It makes more noise than the buzz bombs...
Voronov virtually rewrote the artillery manual, changed commanders again & again. He preached constantly: reconnoiter thoroughly, camouflage tirelessly, do not fear close-range combat, do not fear encirclement. Stalin helped him out: a separate commissariat was set up to build trench mortars...
...world crisis began to overshadow all else in the Russian mind. For the key job in the Foreign Commissariat, Stalin picked his top trouble shooter, Molotov. This was more than a change of faces in Narkomindel (Foreign Office). It was an about-face in Russian policy, from collective security to the two-fisted stand urged by Molotov and his fellow advisers...
...Algiers, the Committee of Liberation argued long & hotly. The issue: political or military control over a new Commissariat of National Defense. The outcome: dapper, genial General Paul Legentilhomme was appointed to head the Commissariat. Thereby General Giraud won an argument for a military man to run what is in effect a civilian ministry of war. But General de Gaulle also won an argument for putting Army command under Committee authority. And Paul Legentilhomme, a St. Cyr military academy careerist, has been a Gaullist since 1940 and bears the scars of a wound inflicted by Vichyites in Syria...