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...Halfway House. Churchill was insistent, and the Cabinet finally gave grudging assent to Churchill's meeting Malenkov at some halfway house such as Switzerland, Sweden or Germany. The Russians, secretly sounded out at Geneva, seemed interested. Within a few days the answer came back from Molotov. Of course, Malenkov was willing to meet Churchill-but he would meet him only in Russia...
...Cabinet, critics quickly pointed out that a solitary journey all the way to Moscow would have the appearance (particularly to the U.S.) of a "pilgrimage of surrender." If Malenkov had any intention of meeting the West halfway politically, they argued, he should surely be willing to meet Churchill halfway geographically. Churchill insisted he would go all the way to Moscow if need...
...Lonely Ones. An education officer in Kenya described how the Communists are willing to reach halfway around the world to win their African converts. "Some of our Kenya young men have been sent to England for advanced study. But they have been lonely in London . . . Communist agents . . . are on the lookout for just such young men. They are very friendly. They invite them to tea and to evenings of discussion. The lonely students respond quickly . . . and before long they are well on their way to becoming full-fledged Communist agents...
...Know halfway warm...
...violent and sometimes hurtful, but essentially a joke perpetrated by clumsy bunglers who do not know that the laugh is on them. This may be both oversimplification and underestimation, but in Guareschi's hands the theory bears up entertainingly well. Communists hate to be spoofed. Guareschi, in his halfway perch between angry polemic and soft chuckle, makes fun of them. Peppone, for example, advises Comrade Lungo not to be alarmed because so many of the villagers believe in Jesus Christ...