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With an air of "we'll see about this," McCarthy asked Secretary of State John Foster Dulles for an appointment. Dulles invited McCarthy over to lunch. For 75 minutes, Lawyer-Diplomat Dulles and Lawyer-Senator McCarthy ate and talked. Then they issued a weasel-worded joint communiqu...
Last week the nine "fiends"-and six others whose names had not been mentioned before-were taken from their cells, not for execution but for release as free men. "It has been established," said a communiqué from Deputy Premier Lavrenty Beria, "that the accused . . . were arrested . . . without any lawful cause whatsoever . . . The accusations made against [them] are false . . . [Their confessions were elicited by the investigators] using impermissible means . . . which are strictly forbidden under Soviet law." On the recommendation of Beria's Ministry of Internal Affairs, "the arrested . . . have been completely rehabilitated . . . and freed from custody...
...governments . . ." said they in a joint communiqué, "were in full agreement that, in the event of aggression in Europe, the resulting conflict could hardly remain local in character." There was firm talk of British military aid for Belgrade, and Tito volunteered a broad hint that he would try to patch up the festering relations between his regime and the Catholic Church...
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Several changes make for a more streamlined emergency command setup-or, as Moscow's official communiqué put it, "more operative leadership." The changes: ¶A few years ago, Beria, Molotov and Bulganin stopped actually running their ministries, remained on the all-powerful Politburo, free to think and plan; the ministries were taken over by lesser lights, e.g., Andrei Vishinsky replaced Molotov as Foreign Minister. Now the top boys are back in charge of their departments and the second-stringers are kicked downstairs, e.g., Vishinsky is now only deputy minister and chief representative at U.N. ¶At last October...