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...before Robertson spoke, the Russian-controlled Berlin radio announced, not unexpectedly, a plebiscite for the Soviet zone next month on the question of "unity." The foregone conclusion: most would vote "Ja." Then the Russians could set up their capital in Berlin (in their own sector), or possibly in Leipzig...
...even a year afterwards that one Allan Walton Gould, a man "always somewhat inclined to books," reaped the first rewards of Bancroft's generosity. Gould studied for a year in Leipzig under the fellowship and returned to become a tutor at Harvard and finally a Unitarian Minister. His class's 30th anniversary book was somewhat scandalized by the report that he had once held a post in a church "reputed to be radical...
Said the U.S. Government in a stinging (but futile) note of protest: "The trial of Petkoff recalls to mind another trial which occurred in Leipzig 14 years ago. In that earlier trial, a Bulgarian defendant [Dimitroff] evoked worldwide admiration for his courageous defiance of the Nazi bully who participated in his prosecution. Today that defendant has assumed another role and it is now the courage of another Bulgarian [Petkoff] whose steadfast opposition to forces of oppression has evoked worldwide admiration...
...week, in Slightly Out of Focus (Henry Holt, 243 pp., $3.50), he assembled an album of the best of them. It opens with a shot of the convoy that he rode to Britain in 1942, and closes with the young machine-gunner he snapped on an open balcony in Leipzig, seconds before the boy was shot between the eyes. ("The last day, some of the best ones die. But those alive will fast forget...
...Russian, English, and French showing him to be the University's agent, are among the many documents be must carry. With War Department permission to remain in Germany only 14 days, Mueller does not yet know whether he will get a chance to use his Russian letter and visit Leipzig in the Russian zone...