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Unter den Linden was alive with demonstrators. Snatches of the Internationale seeped into the Wilhelmstrasse chancellery, where Socialist Friedrich Ebert, shaky head of a shaky government, sat wondering if he was another Kerensky doomed to fall before his country's Communists. It was Nov. 9, 1918. Shipwrecked in the field, rudderless at home, Germany was drifting into anarchy...
Beetle-browed Cheddi Jagan, 35. had flown to Britain, confidently expecting a bonanza of Socialist sympathy. With him, flashing the three-fingered salute of the P.P.P.. was his Minister of Education; an Oxford-educated Negro named Linden Forbes Burnham. The pair were met at London Airport by a bunch of British Communists, but before they could mount a soapbox, Scotland Yard whisked them away to a private office on the Opposition side of the House of Commons. Clement Attlee, whose government had prepared the way for self-government in Guiana, had urgent questions to ask. He had been disturbed...
Smushwick had a new angle. He wrote his thesis on the eating habits of the merchants on but one block of Mass. Avenue. And for his research, he just looked into a row of garbage cans along Linden Street each morning before punching the clock at the filling station...
There were occupational hazards, though. Every once in a while when he was bent over absorbed in research, sleepy undergraduates staggering up Linden Street for a ten o'clock class would knock him into the gutter. The undergraduates always apologized, and said they were terribly sorry, but there were only a few inches of sidewalk left that weren't taken up by the garbage cans, and they couldn't be expected to walk in the streets, could they? Smushwick always shrugged. Once he had a really narrow escape. The Cambridge Board of Health said that, henceforth, all the cans were...
With iron fist and velvet glove, the rulers of Communist East Germany sought to erase the memory of the 17th of June. From the massive Soviet embassy in Unter den Linden streamed decrees and orders...