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...charges that condemned Czech Communist Boss Rudolf Slansky and his cohorts (TIME, Dec. 8, 1952) was that they exported "militarily valuable" TV tubes to Britain, thereby "endangering Czechoslovakia's defense potential...
...52nd birthday (on Jan. 8). In anticipation of the great day, Rumania's Communist news agency, Agerpress, filed a canned eulogy of the Soviet chief to its member papers in preparation for the standard high jinks. Czechoslovakian editors also got set with big laudatory spreads. Soon both Czech and Rumanian editors got urgent word from headquarters: no birthday greetings for Malenkov...
...than its plot. Treating of the U.N.-and of Katharine Cornell as a U.S. delegate with proposals for enlarging "areas of agreement" between nations-the play fitfully eyes a serious theme. But it is oftener a mere yarn that suspends seriousness in favor of suspense. The U.N.'s Czech delegate, who in happier days had been Delegate Cornell's lover, calls, out of confused personal emotions, at her house and promptly dies of a heart attack. Were the fact to leak out, the repercussions might wreck the Prescott Proposals...
...universities that has no government subsidy, Pro Deo is still able to afford such lecturers as Roberto Rossellini and U.S. Economist Peter Drucker. Students from 26 different countries have studied there, and gifts have come in from such far-flung sources as the family of the late Czech industrialist Thomas Bata and U.S. Cardinals Spellman and Stritch. Last week Father Morlion was making plans for a new institute of European studies. The man slated to take charge of it (on a part-time basis): Alcide de Gasped...
...examine and try to extend areas of agreement, rather than concentrate on areas of disagreement, as holding out promise for "the saving of Western Civilization." Yet only by seeing the proposals as immensely significant, can the audience be very excited by the threatened ruin of the plan when the Czech U.N. Delegate and former lover of Mrs. Prescott inconsiderately drops dead in her bedroom. Nor without accepting the importance of the proposals, can the audience find credible the willingness of Mrs. Prescott's fellow delegates to remove the body and conceal the truth. The last scene of the play, however...