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...undergraduate bystanders. One compared Castro favorably to Batista, not only contradicting the testimony of those at the rally who had bought both dictators, but also obscuring the main theme of the meeting. The Cuban people want neither Castro nor Batista. They demand freedom. However, that commentator, long a servant of Soviet aggression as head of the Peace Alliance and the ElSalvador Committee, seems unfamiliar with the desire for democracy, and his statement is thus not surprising...
...Street's spy watchers, pondered in the Daily Express: "Was M15 Chief Hollis linked with the KGB?" Nobody pressed for an answer, and no wonder. Sir Roger Hollis had spent nine cold-war years as D.G., or director general of M15, Britain's counterintelligence service, a civil servant so umbrous that his name was never publicly mentioned. After his retirement in 1965 Hollis led a pastoral life of golf mixed with un-spy-like community service in Somerset, until his death...
...Soviet agent. In 1970, Hollis withstood 48 hours of unstinting interrogation as a result of these charges in an M15 safe house in London, according to Pincher. But doubts remained. A year after Hollis' death, Lord Trend, a former Secretary of the Cabinet and a highly respected civil servant, was recalled from retirement to reinvestigate the charges. Lord Trend, Pincher reported, concluded there was a strong prima facie case that M15 had been penetrated and that the director general was the most likely suspect...
When Haydn wanted to hear his latest work, he needed only to stroll over to the Esterháazy court orchestra, put the score on the stands and wait a while. Before long, the musicians would give the piece a vigorous tryout. What is more, as a servant of an 18th century prince, Haydn was expected to provide new compositions with regularity. Modern composers no longer have to wear livery, or write on demand, but neither are they assured of having their music performed. Soloists are often indifferent or even hostile; orchestras and opera companies rely mostly on time-tested...
...common approach is to invite a minister or government official for an afternoon of golf, bet heavily and then spend the next three hours swatting the ball into sand traps. An only slightly more straightforward method is to get into an after-dinner poker game with a key civil servant and lose heavily...