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Behind the façade of solidarity, the purge went on. Beria men were falling...
...underworld that lies behind the lovely façade of Paris, a new population has moved in on the oldtime apache. In the argot they are les Bicots, but respectable Parisians call them les Algériens. After 1946, when the people of Algeria were granted full French citizenship, they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas...
...Façade. Pravda's accusation, appearing 13 days after the tanks rumbled down Sadovaya, brought the first news to the Russian public. In Moscow, long lines of people formed at the newspaper kiosks; some paused to read their newspapers in the street, which is unusual in Moscow. Others crowded around the wall newspapers. Then they went stoically about their business. It was a warm, sunny day. Moscovites who were not working went picnicking, and the swimming places on the Moskva River were crowded. Moscow's crack Torpedo soccer team played the Kiev Dynamos, lost...
Behind the grey façade of the House of Unity in East Berlin's Karl Liebknecht Platz sits the Politburo of 14 men who rule East Germany on orders from the Kremlin. From their conference room last week came pronouncements which launched a new and cunning Soviet maneuver in the cold...
Signs of Nervousness. This week inside the Kremlin, in the palatial chamber of the Supreme Soviet, more than 1,200 voiceless legislators of the U.S.S.R. gave the façade of legality to the succession of Malenkov, Beria, Molotov & Co., formally "approved" unanimously the new government and the abolition of more than half the cabinet jobs that existed under Stalin. Some of the deputies had traveled for days from the Asiatic reaches of the U.S.S.R. to reach Moscow. They were ready to head for home after a "legislature" session of 67 minutes...