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Last week NATO issued a terse communiqué concerning its most cantankerous commander. "General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe," it read, "announced today that Marshal Alphonse Juin has just informed him he intends to request release from his appointment as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe...
...times when he could not easily respond. It was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who capped the Kremlin's efforts. In the marble St. Catherine Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace, Tito, in his marshal's powder-blue uniform, sat down with Bulganin and Khrushchev to sign the joint communiqu...
...Pierson Dixon tossed in a phrase from a Russian Foreign Ministry Office pronouncement of last April expressing hope for a peaceful settlement "on a mutually acceptable basis." Obviously it was a line the Soviets thought well of, for the same words found their way into the Anglo-Russian communiqué put out after the London visit...
...final discussion of Algeria threw the last formal session into overtime, and delayed by five hours the signing of the year's most uncommunicative communiqué ("a useful exchange of opinions"). No sooner had Khrushchev asserted a pious hope that for the Algerian problem France would "find an appropriate solution in the spirit of our epoch" than he lurched up to the Egyptian ambassador at the huge Kremlin reception that followed, and lifted his glass in a toast "to the Arabs and all people struggling for national independence...
...know through Ledig's prose, which shows its simple structure like a field-stripped carbine, why this book has been bought in tens of thousands by Germans. There are few names, and even the scene is one of those anonymous "inhabited places" that appeared in Russian war communiqués, as featureless as its invaders. Russians and Germans blur in this cartoon of death. The sense of death-in-life is all the stronger for the author's calculated casualty-report style; the loss of a barrel of a machine gun has the same weight as the death...