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...Communists' first victim to tell his first-hand story is Michael Shipkov, a Bulgarian. Shipkov was a translator for the U.S. Legation in Sofia, which moved out two weeks ago when the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. He is now in the hands of the Bulgarian State Security Militia (secret police) for the second time. The first time, he was tortured into a false confession that he had been an espionage agent for the U.S. and Britain. Then the secret police sent him back to spy on the U.S. Legation for the militia. Instead, he wrote an account...
Sixty-one Methodist ministers from Illinois journeyed into Washington last week for a first-hand briefing on the problems of the cold war and the welfare state. Before the briefing began, all 61 sat down to answer a list of 25 questions-"an audit of mid-century America." For the next three days they shuttled busily back & forth from the State Department to a conference with Labor Mediator Cyrus Ching, to Capitol Hill to interview members of the Congress, to a friendly visit with Missouri Baptist Harry Truman. Afterwards ten of the visitors sat down and answered the same questions...
...CRIMSON'S Europe-traveling editors did manage to get first-hand reports on a number of the League of independents' meetings in Salzburg this summer. At one meeting, the speaker was questioned on the Party's attitude toward the Jews. He replled that Hitler had temporarily eliminated the Jews in Austria, but the Party realized that democracy was impossible in a nation with a race minority. While the CRIMSON realizes that the League is a catch-all party, the editors feel that this and similar statements indicate that the leadership and program of the Party have clear Nazi inclinations...
...work digging into I.L.G.W.U.'s far-flung activities. Correspondent Windsor Booth, labor reporter from our Washington bureau, and Researcher Anne Lopatin, who spent days talking to garment workers, concentrated on the union's headquarters in New York. National Affairs' A. T. Baker gathered his own first-hand impressions of the garment section and Dubinsky before he sat down to write the story. On the night that the story went to press, David Dubinsky stayed late in the I.L.G.W.U. headquarters in Manhattan to answer last-minute questions...
Fainsod will attempt to get first-hand information on conditions inside Russia by talking to Soviet refugees and DPs who have been in the USSR recently. He will be joined next week in Frankfurt, Germany, by Paul W. Friedrich '49, who will act as a special assistant...