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Incidents of this kind were the stuff of the new propaganda funneling out of Moscow. The old Communist slogans were dropped and the Russians were urged to fight the "patriotic war" for the liberation of "the motherland" from the "fascist beasts." The propaganda was immensely effective. But not yet so effective that it prevented General Vlasov, one of Zhukov's top men in the defense of Moscow, from going over to the Germans and organizing Red army prisoners and defectors into an anti-Communist army. Morale was still wobbly...
...earthquake that shook Brazil a fortnight ago (TIME. April 18) subsided last week. The process of reshuffling the Cabinet continued, but President Joâo Café Filho calmly went ahead with his plans to fly from Rio this week on a nine-day trip to Portugal, the Brazilian motherland. One reason he could be calm was that the 36th International Eucharistic Congress is scheduled to convene in Rio in July. With 1,000,000 Roman Catholic visitors expected, leaders of all factions want to keep up a hospitable appearance of normality. In the Cabinet comings and goings...
Interviews indicated that the mass of the people conform to the traditional picture of a Russian, erratic, stubborn, dependent upon group security, and intensely loyal to the Motherland...
...their hands and talking their language. Peking Radio broadcast a letter from Wei to his "colleagues and friends'' on Formosa, praising Peking's glorious achievements and denouncing Chiang Kaishek. Wrote Wei: "You have all seen that during the Korean war the powerful military might of our motherland forced the U.S. to a ceasefire. Taiwan [Formosa] will eventually be liberated." At last Communist report, Wei and his wife, seeing the sights of Canton, were "very lighthearted and thrilled...
...sufficiently resolved for the Chinese Communists to return both Lamas (now aged 20 and 17) to the sacred cities of Lhasa and Shigatse, where they will share spiritual and temporal power in a kind of heavenly diarchy while Tibet is being organized into "an autonomous region" of "the Chinese motherland...