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Next day the delegates drove along boulevards, where ill-fed Parisiennes in gay print frocks strolled beneath the blooming chestnuts, and swung through the faded green wooden gates into the courtyard of the Luxembourg Palace. A black, bullet-proof Cadillac yielded a grey, tired-looking Molotov. As the courtyard clock struck 4, an oldfashioned, boxlike Daimler arrived. Red-faced, breathing heavily, Ernie Bevin half ran up the steps as if afraid he would be late...
Braden's Man. A onetime Delaware schoolteacher, George Messersmith has been in the diplomatic service 32 years-he had served in Canada, the Dutch West Indies, Belgium and Luxembourg before he went to Berlin. According to a colleague, he has "an uncanny nose that can smell an s.o.b. as far as the wind can carry the scent." He got the scent in Berlin almost immediately. In 1933 he wrote to Washington: "There is a real revolution here, and a dangerous situation." He was home, serving as Assistant Secretary of State, when the situation cracked in September...
...secluded old house in the Luxembourg forests, twelve men were hard at work. Now & then, an ample Frenchwoman served food and hot coffee. A Luxembourg police officer shivered outside in the cold rain. His job: guarding "Operation Annie," the most dramatic underground radio station in wartime Europe...
...Britons who live in the somnolent shadow of Sabbatarian BBC, prewar Radio Luxembourg was a sprightly, sunny beam. Its bright shows included hotcha acts from British music halls, such U.S. soap operas as Stella Dallas...
Last week it appeared that Radio Lux would go back to its old ways. Pint-sized Jacques LaCour-Gayet, representing Radio Lux's French stockholders, said in Manhattan: "Radio Luxembourg will be very glad to accept American advertisers...