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...international film festival in Berlin, all proceedings stopped as three of the world's most sightly actresses-Italy's Sofia Loren, Hollywood's Yvonne (The Captain's Paradise) de Carlo, and Rome's Gina (Beat the Devil) Lollobrigida-got together for the photographers...
Confident that a watchful ear can pick up real news beats, Turner listens for statements of government policy, reports on domestic affairs in other countries, and foreign attitudes about America (on Radio Sofia, "you actually hear them calling us louses"). Most of all, he tries to keep up with the latest Communist line for his program. "Listeners for years have heard commentators discuss Red propaganda," he says, "but very few have heard it as it comes in English direct from Moscow." Whenever he can, Turner juxtaposes the facts of a situation as he knows it with the Soviet version. Although...
From Red Albania, geographically isolated by Tito's defection from the Communist empire, came disconnected and vague reports of rebellion against the government. Czechoslovak Red leaders talked out loud about "reactionary hyenas . . . prowling among us." Radio' Sofia, official mouthpiece of Red Bulgaria, spoke of "traitorous elements" fighting the regime...
...Premier, but is the real boss of Communist East Germany. From Budapest came the Jew-purging Jew, Matyas Rakosi, who used Stalin's purge-trial technique to install himself in control of postwar Hungary. From Bucharest came Premier Gheorghiu-Dej, the icy-eyed nemesis of Ana Pauker. From Sofia came Premier Vulko Chervenkov, so unimaginatively obedient that even the suspicious men of the Kremlin are said to have no worries about his loyalty. From Prague came President Klement Gottwald, who neatly disposed of Moscow-groomed Rudolf Slansky before Slansky could dispose of him. From Warsaw came Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky...
Next morning at 9:30, after waiting for Europe's famed Simplon-Orient Express to roar along the nearby tracks on its way from Sofia to Istanbul, the Greeks opened fire with machine guns and mortars. After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side. By nightfall, despite a constant barrage of propaganda insults on the Bulgarian and Greek radios, and much continued fluttering at U.N., General Manidakis was able to report that all was quiet on the Evros front...