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When Eisenhower was boss of SHAEF, he dubbed Colonel Oreste Pinto "the greatest living authority on security." After the fall of France, when Britain was overrun with refugees, it had been Pinto, a Dutch intelligence officer, who put them through the security sieve to pick out the spies and the phonies; and when the Normandy invasion was roaring ahead, Pinto panted along behind, dowsing for underground traitors and saboteurs...
...slopes. But there was little in the Countess Christine Skarbek's past to prepare her for the services for which she was praised last week. The pampered daughter of one of Poland's oldest families, she was in Addis Ababa with her second husband when Poland was overrun. Christine Skarbek, then 24, promptly went to Britain and offered her services...
...climbed from defeat through vassalage to partnership with its Western conquerors. Its "contract" with the Western allies provided a peace more generous than even the most hopeful German could have imagined in the graveyard days of 1945. Its European Defense compact with the Western neighbors so recently overrun by German Panzers gave West Germans the right to have Panzers again-and the soldiers, rifles and munitions to go with them...
Throughout the counting, Kefauver held a consistent lead over Truman. First reporting counties gave Kefauver six votes to Truman's five. Even with the larger cities. Truman was unable to pick up enough votes to overrun Kefauver...
...plant, and Carlyle had fondly recalled the Chinese friends he made in China before the war. But Harry quickly made it clear that he was not on Sing's side. Nothing personal, he said, but the property owners didn't want the area overrun by non-Caucasians and the value of their homes lessened. The other neighbors added that they had clauses in their deeds forbidding sales of properties to non-Caucasians...