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John Foster Dulles was lucky: he could get away, at least for a few days, from the room in Lancaster House where the air was thick with boredom, and stale mental sweat. While his boss, Secretary of State George Marshall, stuck it out in London, Dulles went to Paris to take a look at France's battle against the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). In London, the Foreign Ministers were still hammer-locked in a weary, heavy-breathing propaganda match. Day after day, Vyacheslav Molotov untiringly obstructed any specific action on the peace treaties for Germany and Austria...
...plots against Hitler, by Hans Gisevius, one of the plotters. In End of a Berlin Diary, William L. Shirer warned that the Germans hoped to get even for defeat when the U.S. and Russia squared off. Unlike his first Diary, Shirer's latest was stuffed with news gone stale...
...knows his city and his city knows him. He fills about 1,900 official engagements a year, recently logged eleven in one night. Says Houde: "I am what TIME called me-a glorified handshaker, a hotel-greeter-no? I do not exactly get tired. I get-what you say? -stale. When I have to get up early, it seems the Devil himself contrives to keep me up late. But I can take it. I am tough like hell...
...Politics has a long and dishonorable tradition of coming out late, but the present lag is something special. . . . There is only one reason for it: Politics has been a one-man magazine, and the man (myself) has of late been feeling stale, tired, disheartened, and-if you like-demoralized...
...growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing German future as well as of the guilty German past...