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...only one break in this pastoral routine. This week, Harold Stassen flew to Flat Top, W. Va., for a long-planned engagement to address the reunion of the famed Lilly family.* Standing on windswept Flat Top Mountain, he told thousands of Lillyans of his interview last spring with Generalissimo Stalin in the Kremlin. He said Stalin asked him if he expected an economic crash in the U.S. and that he replied: "No, I am confident that we have found the way to improve our system of government. We are determined to find a way to bring prices down and keep...
Austria's four Communist deputies (Ernst Fischer, Johann Koplenig, Franz Honner, Viktor Elser) wrote to Moscow to ask whether something could not be done about the prisoners. Last week Generalissimo Stalin graciously replied: "The Soviet Government has decided to speed up the release and transport of Austrian prisoners of war . . . in such a way as to grant the return of all Austrians before the end of the year. . . ." As an afterthought, he added: "The Austrian Government will be informed of [this]. . . ." Vienna's Communist Volksstimme jubilantly pointed the moral: "Today not only Austrian women but the entire Austrian...
...post, deputy commander of all Chinese ground forces, the Generalissimo named Lieut. General Sun Li-jen, trained at George Marshall's own Virginia Military Institute, in the class of '27. General Sun was well thought of by U.S. officers...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the Spanish people to vote on his new law of succession. A yes vote would not only make Franco "Chief of State" for life in a kingless "kingdom," but would give him the legal right to name the king or regent who would succeed him. A no vote simply meant that Franco would continue as dictator of Spain, without even a shadowy commitment to restore the monarchy...
Among the 22 passengers on the initial flight, publicity-wise Pan Am had included 15 bigwig publishers and editors. They had taken tea with Prime Minister Clement Attlee, dined with China's Generalissimo, supped with General Douglas MacArthur. With lesser luminaries, they wined & dined in Istanbul, Calcutta, Manila and Honolulu...