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Forces of Repression. After the revolt, General Franklin Lucero, Perón's Army Minister and reputedly one of his closest military friends, formally took over -"at the express orders of the President" -the task of safeguarding "internal order and public tranquillity." An army communiqué stated that, as "Commander in Chief of the Forces of Repression," Lucero would be in charge of all security forces, even the federal police. With Lucero holding the big stick, Perón tried to quiet the nation's alarm by speaking softly-and with unabashed cynicism. He blamed "Communist elements...
...this new Russian offensive no inconsistency embarrassed them, no reversal deterred them. Satellites were left floundering in confusion. The Hungarian press struck out of the Belgrade communiqué the clause referring to the several roads of Communism, printed it next day only on direct Russian orders. The Communist Poles were aghast at the invitation to Adenauer (formerly referred to by the Russians as "Hitlerite militarist adventurer...
Back in Belgrade. Russians and Yugoslavs met again in the Hall of Guards to sign the communiqué threshed out by their underlings. While the 1,500-word document was read aloud, Khrushchev made little faces at a couple of Russian cameramen he spotted in the crowd. When the reading finished, Tito signed for Yugoslavia, and Premier Bulganin, for the first time accorded the leading role, signed for Russia. The instant the signing was over. Khrushchev took over, leaping up to shake every hand within reach...
...result was a communiqué that opened with an exhortation ("The moment has come to open a new stage on the road toward a United Europe") and ended with a committee ("to study the creation of a common organization .. .") Perhaps too much had been sought too soon, sighed some good Europeans: perhaps this cluster of nations which had so often been a cockpit of war must first learn to work together as nations. Perhaps the slower way was the surer way . . . But it was not said with much enthusiasm...
...spirited Togliatti off to an obscure villa owned by a party member, surrounded it with guards, summoned Trieste's best neurologist and telephoned Rome for the doctor who had operated on Togliatti's skull in 1950. "Venous congestion due to sunstroke," the doctors said in a joint communiqué; language had in it the suggestion that Togliatti had been struck down by a blood clot. It was plainly more than "indisposition," as Togliatti's own doctor let slip some days later. "It must not be forgotten, the state of tension of the honorable Togliatti on that...