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Next day he went to Washington and talked to the FBI. Last week the State Department made public the fearful little episode, declared Cristache Zambeti persona non grata and kicked him out of the U.S. The Rumanian took a plane to Europe, muttering: "A frame-up. I never saw him." The Voice of America beamed the tale to 40 countries around the world. And the Georgescus went back to New York-to wait...
Probably few who cheered the public rallies or signed the protest telegrams had the faintest idea what the Rosenberg case was about. Frame-up, hatemongering, antiSemitism, cried the Communists...
...what is this, a frame-up, a raid? Just dropped in, thought this was a drugstore. Wait a minute...
...toothless, white-haired 84-year-old Councilman Billy O'Brion afforded the meeting some rare advertising. "That section," he cried, "is well taken care of by yours truly. There are just a few windbags up there who want to explode. All these town meetings are a frame-up." After calling Portland's City Manager Lyman Moore and the rest of the council "a bunch of crooks," O'Brion announced that the meeting would have to get along without...
...feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights on at night. After first checking the whereabouts of every U.N. plane that night, Matt Ridgway denounced the affair as a "frame-up" and scorned it as an "amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts to murder Communist personnel by U.S. and South Korean "plainclothesmen," and accused U.N. air commanders of sending planes over Shanghai and Tsingtao. In one message...