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Borodino is a name often heard in Moscow. It is a village about 70 miles westward, where Marshal Kutusov's Russian army made a last-ditch stand against Napoleon in 1812, and where in World War II a hard-fought battle stopped the Germans. Red propagandists made a Soviet symbol of Borodino. When the Foreign Ministry planned its new skyscraper after the war, it chose a site overlooking the Borodino bridge by which the historic highway from the west enters Moscow. There last week top Soviet policymakers met to plot the strategy of a diplomatic Borodino...
Ulbricht took up Soviet citizenship, helped organize German P.W.s and captured officers (among them, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus) into the pro-Communist shock corps that was supposed to go home and paint Germany Red after V-day. The propaganda barrage laid down on the encircled Wehrmacht armies at Stalingrad was written by Ulbricht and delivered in his guttural German over front-line loudspeakers. In Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Red princelings from all over Europe, e.g., Tito, Togliatti, Thorez, he shared quarters in the Lux Hotel with a plain, buxom German émigree named Lotte...
...Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, 64, France's tough, seven-starred No. 2 soldier, will set up a new, unified headquarters as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces in Central Europe. Previously, at Eisenhower's insistence, air, sea and ground forces in that crucial sector were under direct control of SHAPE. Juin's appointment is designed to soothe Frenchmen who feel that France does not have enough high-ranking positions in NATO...
Rhee was not finished with Chough, however. Within a few hours, ROK M.P.s, under the command of Rhee's provost marshal, bundled Chough from the hospital to a jail cell in Seoul. Official reason: "He indiscriminately misled the public by words and deeds, resulting in a very, very difficult situation . . . Because of his disturbance of public sentiments . . . public antagonism became so serious he needed protection." Actually, in a land where Syngman Rhee controls not only the police but the press, only a tiny fraction of South Koreans knew of Chough's audacious stand...
...Marshal's Daughter (Ken Murray; United Artists), undoubtedly one of the worst westerns ever made, seems to have a little of everything in it: a gun-shooting crisis, reminiscent of High Noon, with clocks inexorably moving toward midnight; a barroom brawl scene from an old Hoot Gibson silent; veteran Cowboy Gibson himself as a U.S. marshal whose blonde daughter (Laurie Anders) sings, dances, does a ventriloquist act and is equally expert at shooting, riding and jujitsu; guest appearances by such familiar faces from the wide-open spaces as Tex Ritter, Preston Foster, Jimmy Wakely, Buddy Baer, Johnny Mack Brown...