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...Your Duty." But next day, Sir Winston appeared in Commons in a much different mood. Laborite Emanuel Shinwell apologized for bringing up unpleasant subjects so soon ("Quite right. Do your duty," said Churchill), but Shinwell wanted details of the telegram Churchill had declared he sent to Field Marshal Montgomery in 1945 ordering Monty to stack surrendered German arms so that German troops might use them if necessary against the advancing Russians. Churchill was serious, pale and penitent. Shaking his head remorsefully, he confessed that when he made the statement (TIME, Dec. 6), he was "under the rooted impression" that...
...projected "Eastern NATO" might change some titles but no facts. All satellite forces are already effectively under Russian control. In Poland a Russian marshal is Defense Minister and chief of the armed forces. In Hungary and Bulgaria the Defense Ministers were once colonels in the Red army. All satellite armies have copied the Red army's uniforms, adopted its doctrine and tactics, depend on Russia for their major arms...
...came to assure their hosts that they now love Yugoslavia, Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov sounded as if he had hired a so-Soviet gagwriter. Offered a cigarette by a foreign newsman, he politely declined. Quipped he: "Now don't go and write that the Soviet constitution forbids smoking!" Marshal Georgy Zhukov genially ribbed other correspondents about stories that he had ominously disappeared. Chortled Zhukov: "While I was reported missing, I was enjoying a swim down south...
...Jaunty Broadway Showman Mike Todd announced that he is planning to film Tolstoy's War and Peace next year in Yugoslavia and that Dictator Marshal Tito has agreed to lend 70,000 Yugoslavian troops as extras. A few days later, David O. (Gone With the Wind) Selznick chuckled as he reminded the world that he and Writer Ben Hecht were planning the very same film. Said Selznick: "I, too, have been contacted by the Yugoslavian government. However, I doubt that Tito's troops are uniformed and equipped in the manner of the armies of Bonaparte and Alexander...
Visiting at Columbia University's Teachers College, stronghold of the educational tenet that corporal punishment leaves enduring bruises on a child's emotions, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein spoke up in favor of using the rod. Admittedly no great shakes as a scholar,*Monty, who got an honorary doctor of laws degree from Columbia's President Grayson Kirk, gave a lecture on "Education for Leadership." Said he: "I'm for beating the bad boys-not the girls ... A boy cannot be expected to imagine . . . the misery and pain he has the power...