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...prepared text, onetime Professor Douglas appended a page of footnotes, and from time to time he referred to a large map of Asia behind him. But it was an all-out political speech, a more or less skillful attempt to whitewash the Administration's Asia policy...
...Brazil, the most striking things were the "vigor and vitality . . . One knows this, one looks at the map, one reads reports. But to fly over it all day long . . . this just boiling ahead with terrific energy . . . You can be utterly flumoxed...
Porkkala is the name of a 150-sq. mi. enclave just west of Helsinki (see map) that Finland was forced to "lease" to Stalin by the Russian-dictated peace treaty of 1947. There on Finnish soil, behind a secrecy no Finn is al lowed to penetrate, the Russians maintain a division of troops and train their long-range guns on the water lanes to Leningrad. The Russians allow Finnish trains from Helsinki to Turku to pass through Porkkala, but Russian locomotives (actually U.S.-made, sent under lend-lease) pull them, and the windows are sealed with sheet steel...
...also worked with Garry Osborne, TIME Inc. communications chief, in setting up a special network of telephone and teletype circuits capable of handling hundreds of thousands of words each day. Bermingham arranged for a special cab service for correspondents and photographers, and prepared a directory of strategic locations-hotels, map of the convention hall...
...border pond were also caught in the net. Major Colin Ball of the British Frontier Inspection Service drove up briskly and demanded their release. "This is the British zone," he said. "No," answered the Russian officer who had stepped out of the woods to meet him. "Look at your map," said Ball. The Russian did so and suggested obliquely that they meet again to discuss matters. Ball turned on his heel and put in a call to the military...