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Died. Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 83, most revered patriot of Finland, sometime President (1944-46), leader of his country's armies in three wars of independence against Soviet Russia; after an abdominal operation; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated in czarist Russia, Mannerheim became a courtier and bodyguard to Nicholas II, a lieutenant general in his army. During the Red revolution, he fought for Finland's independence with help from Germany. When the Red army invaded Finland in 1939, the field marshal held his Mannerheim Line positions for three months. In 1941, Hitler's invasion of Russia gave...
Colonel Alfred Redl was a master of his craft. While still in his 30s he rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, and at home he confounded Russian spies who sought Austro-Hungarian military secrets. But talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason...
Herberg's conclusion: "What decades of Czarist persecution could not do, Communist totalitarianism seems on the verge of accomplishing-the stifling of every form of Jewish expression, the total extinction of Jewish existence...
...weakest passage in the speech was the expression of a hope-which Dean Acheson has often expressed before-that the Soviet leaders may yet turn into good little boys. Said he: "It is but 33 years since the overthrow of the Czarist regime in Russia. This is a short time in history. Like many other social and political movements before it, the Soviet Revolution may change. In so doing, it may rid itself of the policies which now prevent the Soviet Union from living as a good neighbor with the rest of the world...
Blake, an authority on Byzantine history and Caucasian languages, was unique among American scholars in his field. He had studied in Czarist Russia for several years, spoke and wrote seven languages, and had a knowledge of seven others...