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...Stalin at his villa . . . but Stalin did not consider it convenient to raise the phone and stated that I should speak to him through Malenkov [then Stalin's secretary], although he was only a few steps from the telephone. After 'listening' in this manner to our plea, Stalin said, 'Let everything remain as it is!' And what was the result of this? The Germans surrounded our army concentrations and consequently we lost hundreds of thousands of our soldiers. This is Stalin's military 'genius'; this is what it costs...
...Administration policy but a forceful plea for one came from Robert McKinney, 45, able editor and publisher of the daily Santa Fe New Mexican (circ. 11,000). Last year McKinney headed the Citizens' Panel on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, whose report was followed by President Eisenhower's decision to make available 20,000 kilograms of fissionable material to overseas nations. This week McKinney came back to Washington, reported that Ike's initial step was dying from red tape and lack of know-how, and urged an equally bold followup. Said McKinney...
...damages. His case dragged through the courts while he and his family (he has a wife and three children) went on relief. Finally, last November, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-1 in Cahill's favor; in January the court unanimously turned down the railroad's plea for a rehearing. In the face of what clearly appeared to be a final decision, the railroad paid the permanently disabled Cahill, who is 24, a whopping damage claim...
Riesel's banter gave way to a fist-clenched plea for a congressional investigation of mobsters in organized labor, and he repledged himself to the crusade. "I have no sensitivity about being blind," he said. "They haven't scared me. I can't see, but that doesn't mean I can't write the same kind of copy." In writing it, he can already touch-type and, for note-taking, will learn Braille "or anything else that will help me." Riesel said that he would leave the hospital this week-still with a police bodyguard...
Just as the Socialists seemed about to take all the credit for standing up to the Russians, the Manchester Guardian published a list of 200 political prisoners which, the paper declared, Prime Minister Anthony Eden had handed to the Russians with a plea for their release. In Commons, Eden was the properly outraged diplomat. He had, he conceded, entered a private plea with the Russians to release religious and political prisoners in the satellite countries, but he had not "handed in this list, or any other list." He added: "I want to get results," and talked as if he still...