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...there any atomic bombs in existence (assuming that Russia has none) outside the U.S.? This explosive question has been the subject of hole-&-corner discussions in at least three capitals-London, Washington, Ottawa-for months. Some time ago it was rumored that Britain had obtained atomic bombs from the U.S. for stockpiling in the United Kingdom. The rumor proved false. It was also whispered that the U.S. carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, on its recent visit to the eastern Mediterranean, had The Bomb on board. That one also proved untrue...
...deserters) packed their bags and headed for England. The Canadian Army overseas, 286,387 strong at its wartime peak, was now down to less than 2,000 officers & men. Of these, 650 have asked for discharges in the United Kingdom (because they want to live there). The rest, said Ottawa, will be home by the end of January. Canada's military representatives in Europe after that: a handful of permanent officers...
...Ottawa home Babinski only said blandly: "It is ridiculous. I knew of no password. Fiderkiewicz, you know, is a Communist...
...through the war the cases were secure-far more secure than the Polish Government-in-exile. As the London Government gave way to the Soviet-dominated Warsaw regime, Dr. Waclaw Babinski, precise and mustached, gave way to Dr. Alfred Fiderkiewicz, bald and pint-sized, as Polish Minister in Ottawa...
...long ago, Minister Fiderkiewicz (called "Fido" in Ottawa) decided to ship the treasures back to Poland. He sent the custodian of the collection, Dr. Stanislaw Swierz-Zaleski, to pick up the cases at the Ottawa convent. To the nun behind the grill Dr. Zaleski mumbled the secret password: "Holy Virgin of Czestochowa." The nun looked surprised. Only a few days before, a man "with a tumor on his ear" had appeared at the convent. He too had pronounced the secret password-and she had given him the treasures...