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...Zagreb, headquarters for his crusade, he was greeted by church officials with gifts of bread and salt-a Yugoslav symbol of welcome-and quickly became known as "Gospodin Billy (Mister Billy)." In pouring rain, at a soccer field owned by a local Roman Catholic seminary (the government barred Graham from conducting his crusade in a public stadium), he spoke through a translator to a huddled crowd that represented more than one-tenth of Yugoslavia's 20,000 Protestants. A sodden banner proclaimed in Serbo-Croatian, "Jesus said: I am the way, the truth, and the life." Graham skirted politics...
...Gospodin Wallace. In schoolrooms, happy moppets chalked up such spontaneous slogans as: "Let's Be Shock Brigadiers in Education and in Work." "Now there is no more persecution, or hatred, or exploitation," said a "typical" Serb; "[but] why is it that your country and mine can't get along?" "What we cannot understand," said another, "is why your Gospodin Wallace . . . does not have the big majority of the American public with...
...Cassidy. Late in September, at the insistence of his Manhattan bosses, he wrote to Stalin asking for an interview, expected no results. But several days later he was roused by a midnight call from the Foreign Office. Cassidy rushed over, was amazed to find a letter from Stalin: "Dear Gospodin (Mr.) Cassidy: Owing to the pressure of work ... I shall confine myself to a brief written answer. . . ." This was the famed letter in which Stalin called for Second Front...
Winston Churchill came home to Britain with a sly twinkle in his eye. In Moscow bands had met him. In the Kremlin Joseph Stalin had smiled warmly and said: "Radvidet vas gospodin Chercheel" (Delighted to see you Mr. Churchill). Then they had talked through interpreters, for three hours and 40 minutes...
...Later, Gospodin Kuusinen and Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov initiated in Moscow a "mutual assistance" treaty between the two Governments which, it was significantly said, will be formally signed later in Helsinki. The Soviet Union, having cut off all communication with the now unrecognized Finnish Government, paid little heed to appeals delivered through third parties. As it began to appear more & more that the Finns would have to fight it out, Premier Ryti stout-heartedly declared: "We will not consent to bargain away our independence. . . . We will fight alone and we expect...