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Nikolai V. Novikov, owlish Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., arriving from Paris at LaGuardia Field, was involved in a border incident with New York City customs and immigration men. He was taken to the crowded Public Health Room for the routine quarantine and immigration lineup, was questioned, examined, and cross-examined as if he were "just a passenger." The procedure annoyed him. When he tried to phone the Soviet Consulate, an airline representative barred the way. Novikov drew his iron curtain about him and glared. A few minutes later, a customs inspector requested him to sign a baggage declaration...
...Fiorello LaGuardia: "[He was] just a humble little man who has lived the Sermon on the Mount-bigger than any man in his Party...
...where PBY planes were waiting. And no plane could land closer. Only helicopters could do the trick, and the nearest helicopters were 1,175 miles away in the U.S. At Elizabeth City, N.C., the Army dismantled a helicopter, flew the parts to New York. Another helicopter was waiting at LaGuardia Field. Both were loaded into C-54s and flown to Gander, reassembled...
...then LaGuardia created a political displaced person by announcing the "release" (as UNRRA director for Germany) of Britain's Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan. His reason: reorganization of UNRRA operations. Morgan was suspended from the same post last January for saying that clandestine organizations were helping Jewish refugees to escape from Poland; later he was reinstated. He recently charged that UNRRA is an "umbrella under which Soviet spies are working." The next day, General Joseph T. McNarney, U.S. commander in Europe, announced that one Russian UNRRA employe had just been arrested as a Soviet MGB (secret police) agent...
Then it saw that the "union members" seemed more like independent fishermen, their "contracts" (covering $10 million worth of fish a year brought into twelve California ports) had the effect of price-fixing agreements. Under the Norris-LaGuardia Act, a union cannot be prosecuted for conspiring to fix prices. But last week the Government brought suit anyway. Its contention: the C.I.O.'s I.F.A.W.A. is not really a union but a trade organization of small fishermen...