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...Teheran, New York Timesman Michael Clark, 32, son of Freda Kirchwey, editor-publisher of the Nation, was called on the carpet by Iran's Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi. He clutched a copy of the Times containing a Clark dispatch which said that Premier Mossadegh's "remarkable go-to-o vote of confidence in the Majlis" on his return from the U.S. was helped by "incipient terrorism, i.e., the threat of assassination held over Mossadegh's opponents." Cried Fatemi: "Intolerable insults against the government...
...hillsides, U.N. soldiers smoked casually in the open and talked of home. On the 3rd Division's front (see WAR IN ASIA), a lieutenant told his men: "There has been an order for a ceasefire, men. Did you get that? A cease-fire." A front-line Associated Press dispatch from Korea reported: "Orders from the highest source, possibly from the White House itself, brought the ground fighting to a complete, if temporary, halt...
...West, President Harry Truman saw the A.P. dispatch and spluttered like a pinwheel. The Pentagon fired off a demand to Tokyo for an explanation. From Washington, J.C.S. Representative Major General John E. Hull and the State Department's Deputy Undersecretary H. Freeman Matthews hustled down to Key West. After hurried conferences, a statement was issued flatly denying the A.P. report. In Korea, the Eighth Army's General James Van Fleet said that an order of his had been "misinterpreted" by subordinate commanders...
Hundreds of Spanish intellectuals hopefully signed their name to a telegram Dali vowed to dispatch to Picasso: "Know that despite your current Communism we consider your authentic genius an inseparable patrimony of our spiritual empire . . ." It was an invitation to Pablo to break with Communism and come back home to Spain...
...crabmeat cocktail, a steak and a bottle of wine. One hour later, according to friends, nothing had been served, and the waiters were playing a rotary defense. Josephine, who has made something of a specialty of creating incidents since her return to the U.S. last spring, reacted with practiced dispatch. She stormed into the night to find Walter White, executive secretary of the-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to whom her companions delivered the shattering charge: Winchell had been there and seen it all, and never lifted a finger to help...