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...NINETY AND NINE (343 pp.)-Imre Kovács-Funk & Wagnal/s...
This novel burns a hole in the Iron Curtain with a moral blowtorch. A white-hot account of the Red tyranny in Hungary, The Ninety and Nine is fired less by skilled prose than searing passion, less by action than ideas. Hungarian-born Author Kovács, a World War II underground fighter and onetime secretary-general of Hungary's National Peasant Party, now works for the Free Europe Committee in New York. Lacking the theoretical brilliance of a Koestler, he nonetheless brings to his grade B Darkness at Noon a fingertip knowledge of the Communist mind in action...
...Zhukov trapped as many as ten German divisions this way. He would then stand off and pound them to pieces with his artillery. Writes German General Guderian: "Whenever the German army fell into a dangerous, disorganized or shilly-shally state, we always looked for the skillful hand of . . . Zhu-kov." Eisenhower once asked Zhukov how his men negotiated minefields. Zhukov's answer chilled Ike: "When we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks as if it were not there. The losses we get from personnel mines we consider equal to those we would have gotten from machine guns...
...story went like this: in 1943 and 1944, Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
Several weeks ago, when Gavam announced that Persian Government troops would be sent into the province, Ivan Sadchikov, Moscow's bald, pink Ambassador to Persia, protested vigorously. Gavam did not back down. On his instructions, Ambassador Ala reported Sadchi-kov's remarks to the Security Council (in his letter they were called "friendly admonitions") and asked the Council to keep an eye on northern Persia. At a Persian Embassy dinner in Washington, word was informally passed that the U.S. would vigorously support "Persia and any other nation that defends its established rights...