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Frosting Last. Butler did not prematurely betray the news that lay in the battered red dispatch box in which budgets are transported each April from the Treasury to Commons. Before the House, he went at it as a boy eats cake-saving the sugariest bits of frosting until last...
...relations. Winston Churchill put him up in his country home at Chequers, and wrote afterwards: "Molotov's room [was] thoroughly searched by his police officers . . . The mattresses were all prodded in case of infernal machines. At night a revolver was laid out beside his dressing gown and his dispatch case...
...foreign ambassador in Moscow concluded a recent dispatch to his government with the cryptic sentence: "The story of Stalin's death has not yet been written." The Russian experts of two other nations (both of whom served tours of duty in Moscow) have pieced together estimates of the situation which agree remarkably well, though arrived at independently. Their interpretation: ¶ That Stalin last fall became worried by slackness in the Soviet leadership, which accounts for the fervent denunciation of nepotism, inefficiency and mismanagement at the null Party Congress in October...
Malan's Nationalist Party has dismissed the movement as a Communist campaign. However, A. T. Steele, in a dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, expressed the feeling prevalent among most people who have studied the resistance movement. He said, "There is little doubt that some Communists have infiltrated the passive resistance movement . . . . In any case it is apparent that the great majority of those participating in the movement have no Communist connections...
Correspondent George H. Hall of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch shot a question at the President: "Could you identify the group of persons in the White House or the Administration who give final clearance to nominations . . . before you send them to the Senate...