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...volume must be taken apart and every line of every page put under the microscope. Pinto's toughest example: "a closely printed dictionary, 700 pages in length," brought into Britain by a "Dutch refugee." Not until page 432 did Pinto find what he was looking for -"a tiny pinprick" under one letter. Other pinpricks followed under other letters; when written down in order, they gave the addresses of Nazi agents in Stockholm and Lisbon...
Blackmail. The East's response was not pen notes but pinpricks. The incidents were small: e.g., West Germans were refused interzone passes to Berlin because "American imperialists are trying to split Germany"; British and U.S. patrols were temporarily barred from the no-mile stretch of Autobahn linking Berlin to West Germany. But each pinprick seemed to fit into an ominous Soviet stencil. The Reds were giving West Germans a glimpse of what might happen if they turn down the Soviet offer of "unity." Huffed Walter Ulbricht, East German Deputy Premier: "The day the peace contract is signed, West Berlin...
...sovereignty: the French Parliament ratified the Schuman Plan to pool Europe's coal and steel. One of two traditional enemies was willing to share with the other the very source of power and strength over which they had fought so often. It might be but a mere pinprick in the barrier of distrust. Yet through that pinprick shone a slim ray that might yet light the way to unity in Europe...
General Li's forays are unlikely to do more than pinprick Red China. Harassed on its flanks and rear by Burmese government forces (Burma maintains diplomatic relations with Peking), and by Burmese Communists seeking to link up with the Reds in Yunnan, Li's ill-equipped force has little long-range hope of holding out. But Li's pinpricks worried the Communists enough to make them divert thousands of crack troops to Yunnan...
...Pinprick Campaign. Last fortnight, at B.A.'s Teatro Colon, Peron listed the Government's enemies: the "oligarchy," Opposition politicians, Communists - and La Prensa. Next day the News Vendors' Union, newly organized and recognized by Perón's Labor Ministry, demanded that the paper stop delivering copies straight to subscribers. Home deliveries account for less than a tenth of La Prensa's 387,384 circulation, but to have cut them off would have thrown 250 employees out of work and cost $400,000 in severance...