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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bald, pale Mario Scelba, Italy's tough Minister of the Interior, had studied a Cominform directive found by his police on a Red courier en route to France from Bulgaria. Scelba was convinced that French and Italian Communists were under orders to launch a spring offensive. One day last week he warned his fellow ministers: "We are in an emergency." He asked and received extraordinary power to keep public order, including reinforcements for the police and a ban on all public and factory meetings...
...under false pretenses; i.e., he had said he was not in favor of violently overthrowing the government. These charges were dropped, but when Strachey arrived in New York again in 1938, he was held at Ellis Island for two weeks because his visa had been canceled while he was en route. The U.S. consul general in London had canceled the visa because he was "convinced that [Strachey] is a member ... of the executive committee of the British Communist Party." Strachey denied this and a U.S. circuit court of appeals later ruled that his visa should not have been revoked...
Evidence of U.S. impact surrounded Sherry en route. Americans, in and out of uniform, were everywhere. The native populations showed great interest in American affairs and American thinking. English is now in such general use that, although his work included detailed study and negotiation, Sherry never once needed an interpreter. Even in Siam English is compulsory in the schools and many young Siamese aim to complete their education in the States...
...million people to seal their alliance with open panoply. Soviet dignitaries repaired to a Kremlin hall. In their center stood Comrades Joseph Stalin of Russia and Mao Tse-tung of China. Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky scratched his name several times. China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai did the same. The documents they signed proclaimed that: ¶ For 30 years, Russia and China would aid each other "with all means ... in the event of ... attack by Japan or any state allied with her . . ." (i.e., the U.S.). ¶ Russia would transfer toChina control of the strategic Changchun...
...between the Soviet Union and its satellites elsewhere. Washington and London wondered what other agreements might have been sealed in secret codicils, a ceremonious exchange of handshakes, or nods of the head between the Russians and the Chinese. "We know something about Mr. Mao Tse-tung and Mr. Chou En-lai," observed a British Foreign Office spokesman, "but, frankly, the gentleman we are most interested in is Mr. Quid...