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...contrary, an exposition and defense of the Truman policy before, as well as during, Byrnes' tenure as Secretary of State. Indeed, President Truman's cooperation was responsible for one of the most important sections of the book, on the communications between President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin revealing the deterioration in relations that set in almost immediately after the Yalta Conference. Whatever critical statements can be traced either to Truman or to Byrnes surfaced much later and were definitely not part of Speaking Frankly...
DIED. Pyotr Kapitsa, 89, Nobel-prizewinning Soviet physicist who made major discoveries in magnetism and low-temperature and plasma physics but who was placed under house arrest in the last years of the Stalin era for refusing to conduct nuclear weapons research; in Moscow. He spent much of his early career at England's Cambridge University, until Stalin in 1934 pressured him into staying home by creating Moscow's Institute of Physical Problems, which Kapitsa headed until 1946 and then from his post-Stalin rehabilitation in 1955 until his death...
...bright, the chins are raised in cheerful pugnaciousness, the mouths always on the verge of a smile. These folks seem as jolly as TV-commercial grandparents, yet eager to raise hell one more time. Most of them were active members of the American Communist Party in the days when Stalin was Uncle Joe and the choice looked clear between fascism and Communism. Some party stalwarts helped organize labor unions. Others fought for civil rights in an age when the color barrier kept blacks out of state colleges and the World Series. Radicals lived on the barricades then: leading strikes, tangling...
...midst. Recalls Dorothy Healey, who for a quarter-century headed the party's Southern California district: "What was the meaning of life? You had that answer." But those same eyes, sparkling with conviction, could be blinkered in the face of such trifles as the Moscow trials, the Hitler-Stalin pact, the partial annexation of Finland and, later, the taking over of Eastern Europe and the reports of Gulag atrocities. It was not until 1956, and Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, that even the most loyal of party members began to wonder how something so good turned...
Though such glimpses into Mafia domestic life are rare, they appear eerily familiar. Indeed, the Mafia princess bears a family resemblance to another victim of unbounded evil, the princess of the Kremlin. In Svetlana Alliluyeva's 1967 memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Stalin's daughter tells similar tales of disappearing family friends, and her father often made a show of mourning those he had ordered killed. Svetlana too was forbidden to pursue her chosen career, in this case, literary scholarship, and was denied her first lover, a Jew. Though both daughters ultimately escaped from their palatial prisons...