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Teheran, the movie-in-progress, is a spy-soaked thriller, with clips from actual newsreels, built around the OGPU-reported Nazi plot to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Teheran meeting of the Big Three. British Producer John Stafford, backed by British-Italian capital and using a mixed British-Italiah-American cast, had set up shop in Rome's Scalera Studios because of a shortage of studio space and studio personnel in England...
Molotov never appeared without his flying wedge of guards and his interpreter.* Some of them were inoffensive consultants in his delegation, but they all spelled Ogpu to the onlookers. The contrast with Stettinius and Eden, striding carelessly through the lobbies, was too much for Americans, who often forget that three of their Presidents have been assassinated...
...invaded 25 years later by Marshal Ivan Konev-just as this time a Provisional Government of Poland, headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, followed hard on the heels of the Red Army. Like Bierut, Dzerzhinsky was a Pole. Like Bierut, he was in the Russian secret police (later he organized the Ogpu). Russia's second bid for western power failed when French General Maxime Weygand (now a German prisoner) reorganized Polish resistance. The third try-the present Red Army's-succeeded. Last week Stalin, who had learned his history lessons the hard way, converted the Russian military failure...
Born. To Pfc. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 39, ham-handed expose writer (Out of the Night), onetime Gestapo and Ogpu agent; and his second wife, Abigail Harris Krebs, 21: their second child, second son; in Danbury, Conn. Name: Eric Alan. Weight...
...night after arrival of the President's party in Teheran, Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov telephoned Averell Harriman, told him the Ogpu had discovered a German plot on the lives of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. He suggested that Franklin Roosevelt move from the American to the Russian Embassy. The President did so, the next day. Churchill remained at the British Embassy, just across the street. The Russians then threw a screen around the Russian and British Embassies, turning them, in effect, into one armed camp. Probable reason for the scare: week before, 38 German paratroopers had been dropped...