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...invitation of Nikita Khrushchev, who apparently wanted an American he could be nice to, Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, 76, recently awarded a Lenin Peace Prize, flew to Paris with his invalid wife, but got there only as K. was about to depart at Orly Airport. Eaton told K. the story of George Washington, the cherry tree and telling no lies. Later, Eaton was asked if he regarded Dwight Eisenhower as a liar in the spy plane ruckus. "No," replied Canadian-born Millionaire Eaton, "but we pulled some serious fibs. We need to return to the principles of George Washington...
...wooden cross on an empty lot. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Cross at Marx & Lenin...
...Sundays to make the long tram ride into Cracow for Mass. Finally, Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka bowed to pressure, announced that the 100,000 people of Nowa Huta could have a church after all. The site selected was an open, grassy site at the corner of Marx and Lenin streets, amid the scores of shabby new apartment buildings. A wooden cross was mounted in the center and consecrated by Cracow's Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak himself...
...Communist regime was so disturbed that it tried to censor all mention of the riot, and the secret police dogged the footsteps of foreign newsmen. But at the corner of Marx and Lenin streets the cross still stood, protected by groups of angry women-emphatic evidence that the faith of Poland's Christians is still a force that the Communist bosses challenge at their peril...
...last week there was emphatic evidence that the soft line does not suit aggressive, bumptious Red China, either in theory or practice. In Peking, Mao Tse-tung's editorialists took advantage of the Lenin celebration to take issue with Khrushchev. With the approaching summit meeting obviously in view, newspapers chorused that coexistence with capitalism is "impossible" for good Leninists. "The imperialist system will not crumble by itself," said the authoritative journal Red Flag. "It will be pushed over by the proletarian revolution...