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Blessings of Liberation. Toward this chaos of simplicity, a tall, gangling officer was speeding back last week, after a brief breathing spell in Italy. General Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the U.S. occupation forces, found nothing unusual in these alarms and confusions. It was just an average week, and Clark could still claim with justice that Big Four relations in Vienna were better (or less visibly bad) than anywhere else in Europe...
...Budd Gets Around. As "chance" would have it, they arrive just as the Japs attack. One of the she-shipmates is missing in action. Lanny marries the other-an amateur medium who has spirited conversations with the late financier Otto Kahn. They escape through China, sit a spell with Communist Leader Mao Tze-tung, then fly to a Moscow powwow with Joseph Stalin, who says: "You are a well-informed man, Mr. Budd, and good company. The next time you come this way, I hope you won't fail to let me know...
...from behind Moscow's iron curtain, after ten months, comes erudite, ironic Atkinson, to rest a spell and then perhaps to return to Broadway's asbestos curtains. In goes chubby, energetic Drew Middleton, one of the Times's top-flight newsmen...
...State Department, an old hand at economic warfare, chased the Nazi investments out of South America. The same methods can be used to spell doom to the next six years of Juan Peron's experiment in South American fascism...
Farago defends diplomacy's "obsolescent" verbiage: "Diplomacy would lose much of its spell once stripped of the belle tournure of its nomenclature." Corps Diplomatique itself is no slouch at belle tournure. With scholarly assists from Longfellow, Goethe, Lord Cecil, Dr. Johnson, Sir Henry Wotton,* Rousseau, Burke, Schiller, Lenin, Lord Castlereagh and Bronson Alcott, it delivers itself of such pearls as: "The bores and the bored whom Byron-called the 'two mighty tribes of society,' are still around and about. But diplomats, who are the best society, now follow Ruskin's advice and keep...