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...Finland's Paavo Nurmi...
...bourgeois Ukrainian family, was a student in Paris when, in 1902, she met the bookish, intolerant young intellectual who spent his time playing chess in smoky cafés, dreaming violent dreams of world revolution. For the next 38 years, she followed Leon Trotsky around the world-Spain, Switzerland, Finland, the U.S., Norway, Germany, Turkey, Russia -into exile and to the gates of many a prison...
...Napoleon's Grande Armee, but had become the terror of the people they liberated. "Better the French as enemies," German peasants were beginning to say, "than the Russians as friends." The fears of Europe were much the same as the world's today: "What if. having occupied Finland, Bessarabia and Poland, the northern colossus should now strike southwards across the central Asian deserts to the Indian Ocean?" And when British Foreign Secretary Castlereagh opposed a puppet Poland under Russian control, "he was curtly informed that Russia, already in occupation of Poland, possessed an army...
...Russians still had one major gap in their knowledge: they did not know how to make plutonium. That gap, the committee suggested, was filled by Bruno Pontecorvo, the Italian-born British physicist who quietly took his wife and three children on a trip to Finland last fall, then vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Pontecorvo was an expert on nuclear reactors, the devices which are needed to make plutonium...
...fell into the hands of the Spanish Chief of State" in 1943, according to Figaro. It was supposedly written by President Roosevelt to Jacob Zabronsky, president of the National Council of Young Israel, and it designated him Roosevelt's secret emissary to Stalin. It instructed Zabronsky to promise Finland and the Baltic states to Stalin, as well as a port on the Mediterranean, and commented on Red Marshal Timoshenko's "short but fruitful stay" in Washington. It ended with thanks to Zabronsky for presenting F.D.R. with a copy of the Scroll of the Jewish Torah on behalf...