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...Europe. Those two rustic but historic occasions marked the climax of a brilliant military career for Walter Bedell Smith. In the postwar years, he served his nation notably as a diplomat and as chief of intelligence. But it is in his role as the able military planner who helped map the great campaigns of World War II that "Beedle" Smith must be long remembered...
Then there is a large colored map that hangs over the head table of a long conference room. Yellow areas, indicating the presence of ICA personnel, are heavily-scattered all over except for a large brown mass that dominates the center of the map. In small white letters are the words "soviet bloc...
...late Hollywood writer-producer, Don Hartman, who had a pencil in most of the Hope-Crosby-Lamour Road pictures, once explained how their locations were selected: "You take a piece of used chewing gum and flip it at a map. Wherever it sticks, you can lay a Road...
...long-suffering witness won permission, at one point, to step from his glass cage and point out on the map locations of German-occupied territories. Every policeman in court rose. Three crowded behind him. Eichmann moved the pointer uncertainly, trying to locate Bialystok. With the air of a teacher dismissing a nervous student, Hausner took the pointer away and found the place...
While three "worthy, honest and decent little countries" (Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia) have vanished outright from the map and seven more have been sealed behind the Iron Curtain, Gunther finds that Western Europe, by contrast, is a far more hopeful place. In most countries, "democratic impulses are comfortably on the ascendant." Europe is enjoying an unparalleled boom, and the Common Market has pushed it closer to economic unity in a quarter-century than it had moved in the previous 500 years. More important, U.S. troops guard the Rhine. For if one thing has not changed, says Gunther, it is Germany...