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...Received an unexpected gift : a handsome color photograph of Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, his wife, two daughters, a son-in-law and a granddaughter, against a background of blooming nasturtiums (see NEWS IN PICTURES). White House Press Secretary James Hagerty thought that he had an explanation of Zhukov's gift. At the Geneva Conference, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev told President Eisenhower that Zhukov had passed up his younger daughter's wedding in Moscow in order to attend the conference and to see his old comrade-in-arms. The President promptly presented an autographed...
...ignored the French paragraph, appealed instead for the solidarity of Islam. The French were furious. To-teach the Sultan a lesson, they appointed an imperious and impetuous new Resident General : Alphonse Juin, topflight field soldier and veteran of long years of service in North Africa. An old-fashioned imperialist, Marshal Juin had his own Moroccan to set up against Ben Youssef: El Glaoui...
...British Army, which sheepishly admitted that at Aborfield barracks "the only weapon the guards had between them was one pick handle and a four-foot piece of wood, [because] no arms were issued for guard duty." In London, Prime Minister Eden had a 45-minute special session with Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Chief of the Imperial Staff. The British were more worried than they cared to admit by the resurgence of the I.R.A...
Gunsmoke (Sat. 12:30 p.m., CBS). Adventures of U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon...
...midst of the elaborate picnic laid on by the leaders of Russia for foreign diplomats (TIME, Aug. 15), bald-polled Ivan Konev, commander in chief of the satellite armies, turned to his companion in the raspberry patch, the British minister. "The marshals are picking berries," said Marshal Konev, and pointed the moral: "The marshals have been turned into soldiers of peace." In case this seemed a little pat for the Western world to believe, the marshals went farther last week. The Kremlin announced that it would reduce the size of the Soviet armed forces by 640,000 men before...