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...element in the President's cautious optimism may have been his recent contact with the enemy's high command. Ike confirmed the report that he had corresponded with Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the Soviet Defense Minister, whom he knew and liked in Germany after World War II. He said the letters were of no great significance, and were "based upon old friendship . . . absolutely personal...
Arriving in Washington this week for a state visit, and to make a request for U.S. military and economic aid: Field Marshal Luang Phibun Songgram,* 58, Prime Minister of Thailand...
This week, in a scene reminiscent of the Czarist days at their most imperial, ex-Dragoon Zhukov, now a chunky, 59-year-old marshal, reviewed the crack regiments of the world's largest army. Standing in a pale blue Zis limousine, his broad chest loaded with decorations, his hand in a stiff salute, Zhukov watched the young cadets of Russia's top military academies goose-step their way through Moscow's Red Square in unwavering, platoon-wide lines. The cadets wore smart new uniforms; steel-blue with sleeves laced with gold-braided laurel leaves; their officers wore...
...this the occasion on May Days past, when the chunky rulers of Russia had hurled their condemnations at the U.S. "warmongers" and bellicosely pointed to their own armed strength in the square below and in the skies above. But now, like any bureaucrat in any Communist town hall, Marshal Zhukov read off the standard mimeographed tributes to workers in animal husbandry fulfilling their norms. His speech was short and sweet. Even when he came to foreign policy, he denounced West German rearmament almost more in sorrow than in anger. It "hampers," he said, "the lessening of international tension...
...British racing fans were taking their tips from the columns of London's Communist daily (circ. 83,376). The paper was so in demand that on the black market it fetched 1 shilling (six times the regular price). Even Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England and a steward of the Jockey Club, bought a copy. (He held it as if it were a week-old fish.) Workers' Weakness. Strike or no, the race-track elite could have done worse. Alf Rubin, 38, the Worker's wide-eyed little cockney handicapper...