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During the stormy 30's, when U.S.-Soviet relations were largely filled with acrimony, the staunchest friend of the United States in Moscow was probably Marshal Kliment E. Voroshilov, Minister of Defense and member of the Politburo. A non-com in the Czarist army, Voroshilov was made an officer by Trotsky's decree of August 13, 1918. His rise was phenomenal: reaching Defense Minister only six years later, he has ever since been among the half-dozen key men in the Moscow hierarchy. Quickly he came to close terms with William C. Bullitt, the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet...
Capp's lawyers made it plain who had given the pictures to the legislative com mittee. The photostats, they said, were "supplied by Ham Fisher." But when the lawyers for Capp tried to introduce affidavits from document and handwriting experts to prove that the drawings had been doctored, the FCC said no. The matter of the cartoons was closed so that the hearings could get back to the main business...
Gathering Tension. On the third day of the siege the convicts agreed to negotiate with a seven-man citizens' committee. At the first, tense meeting, between midnight and 3 a.m., the convicts were polite but adamant. They faced the com mittee across a table, set up with a pad and pencil as if for a board-of-directors meeting. They served coffee to the committeemen, talked at length of their hopeless futures, the rigid Massachusetts penal code, the miserable living conditions in Cherry Hill (one of the committeemen, Editor Erwin D. Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, was shut...
...splintered confusion in the French Assembly, the executive com mittee of the Socialist Party voted last week to expel 16 Deputies who defied party orders by voting against both EDC and the Paris accords. The Socialists, with 105 seats in the Assembly, are the largest single party in the Assembly. If the 16 rebels refuse to confess their sins and return contritely to the fold, the largest single party in the Assembly will then be the Communists (98 Deputies...
...water to give to the landlords." They disguise themselves as astrologers to predict that "by the stars, there will be a Communist India." The Communists even pose as holy men, rubbed with ashes, to preach that "the gods want Andhra to be India's first Com munist state." The Communist tactics are many-sided, but their theme is consistent and throbbing: "Five acres per peasant . . . We will give you land!" From Gandhi to Dandies. Less than three weeks before the Andhra election, the 25 top leaders of Nehru's Congress Party gathered in nearby Madras, prop ping themselves...