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...Jordan, that wide space in the desert which has little reason for nationhood, the noisily Nationalist government has been losing steam. Young (21) King Hussein a fortnight ago wrote Premier Suleiman Nabulsi bluntly: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people...
...take this kind of treatment lying down. In December the Soviet U.N. delegate laid the basis for a counterattack by charging that the U.S. was using subversive tactics in the satellite nations and Russia. While the U.N. deferred the debate, the MVD planned other reprisals. A fortnight ago the Soviet Foreign Office ordered the expulsion of two U.S. assistant Army attaches from the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Last week it followed this up by demanding the withdrawal of two U.S. assistant naval attaches. To substantiate its clumsy charge that the naval aides were spies, the MVD had arranged for them...
Arriving this week in the U.S. for a fortnight's visit: Erich Ollenhauer, chief of West Germany's Socialists and the man who will form his country's next government if his party wins next September's elections...
...further testimonial to Diem's progress came fortnight ago from the Communists. After years of insisting that South Viet Nam was just an illegitimate clique and not a government (they talk the same way about South Korea), the Russians gave up their insistence that the Communist governments in Viet Nam and Korea are the only true regimes, and proposed that both halves of each country be admitted...
Collector's Ghost. "Whenever I had some particularly fine pictures for sale," recalls Paris Art Dealer Henry Kahnweiler, "I would send Shchukin a telegram. He generally arrived in Paris within a fortnight." Shchukin's rococo 18th century palace in Moscow was packed with art, including eight Cezannes, three Renoirs, 16 top Derains, 50 Picassos, Degas' Dancers in Blue, Matisse's Music, Gauguin's What! You are jealous? and Rousseau's Tropical Forest (see color pages...