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...might have disapproved even more had he known that Valery's real wish was to become an American pilot. As a teen-ager in Stalingrad, and later in the East zone of Berlin, Valery was as devoutly pro-American as his non-proletarian father was proCommunist. He seized every opportunity to tune in secretly to broadcasts of the Voice of America and the BBC, pored over contraband U.S.-history books, and whirled in delight to the downbeat of U.S. jazz and "boogy-voogy" crying '"Ooo, San Looey" as he gyrated...
...Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), Poland's secret police.* On the return trip to New York, the Batory's crew and passengers were in turn grilled by U.S. Government agents, and the eventual loss of pier privileges forced the Poles to give up the transatlantic run. No Communist or proCommunist, Cwiklinski tried to coexist with the Polish satellite regime for the sake of his wife and two children. He gradually became a figurehead on his own ship, with all disciplinary matters handled by secret-police men. In 1953, tipped off by a friend that he was slated for a phony...
Standing before the Chamber of Deputies last week, Premier Mario Scelba said: "I have the honor to present . . . the law for the European Defense Community." A left-wing voice cried out: "You call that an honor?" and the Communists and Nenni (proCommunist) Socialists set up a chorus of hoots and jeers at Scelba...
Elsewhere, municipal elections also registered rising popular strength for the Reds. Until recently, Guatemala had only 536 people as card-carrying Communists; the Reds were content to win their political victories by infiltrating other parties of the government coalition, which is consistently proCommunist. For last week's elections, the Red party offered candidates in four towns, thus opposing various combinations of other coalition parties, and the anti-Communist opponents of the government as well. Running under their own colors, the Reds won three towns...
Never have I read a more typical proCommunist, appeasing Laborite pronouncement on the misunderstandings between ourselves and England than TIME'S [Oct. 12] page-wasted article: "A British View of United States Policy." From actual contact, I know these obnoxiously expressed opinions of leftist Tom Driberg to be far from typically British and even farther from typically Christian...