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...immediately prior to the Tenth Inter-American Conference as a Communist effort to disrupt the work of this conference." In other words, the real plot in the situation was less of a plot than a scenario -a sort of Reichstag fire in reverse, masterminded in Moscow and designed to divert the attention of the forthcoming Inter-American Conference in Caracas from Guatemala as the Western Hemisphere's Red problem child...
Last September the thirsty, aggressive Israelis struck out for water. They moved bulldozers north to the upper Jordan at Lake Hula, bordering Syria, and began constructing a nine-mile-long, parallel canal to divert part of Jordan's waters into a hydroelectric station, from there to be spilled back into the Jordan...
Lawrence Seaway project-and Congress has just as consistently refused. Chief stumbling bloc: the Congressmen from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts who fear that the seaway might divert trade from ports in their states. Last week, however, another seaway bill went to the floor of the Senate, and breaks soon appeared in the traditional anti-seaway dike...
...Alger Hiss swore to the Un-American Activities Committee that he had never been a Communist), Truman was asked: "Mr. President, do you think the Capitol Hill spy hearings are a good thing, or do you think they are a red herring to divert attention from the anti-inflation program?" Mr. Truman's reply: the hearings are a red herring. Then & there he made an exception to the rule banning direct quotes from presidential press conferences. Said Mr. Truman: "Yes, you can quote me. I said they are simply a red herring. They are using this...
...there is any subject that is guaranteed to divert a French Deputy from a prosaic discussion of a budget, it is Love -sacred or profane. Last week France's National Assembly was debating whether to cut the $71-a-month allotted to Deputies for secretarial help. Socialist Deputy Maurice Deixonne objected that France's No. 1 Communist, Deputy Maurice Thorez, continues to draw salary and secretarial allowance "even though he has not set foot in the Assembly for years. Surely the Communist Party doesn't need the money. Mr. Thorez rides around in a car modeled...