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Churchill acted. A shake-up occurred in the Yugoslav Government in Exile. The new Premier was Dr. Ivan Subasich, a Croat, who was in Manhattan when the summons came. In Bari, on the Italian coast, he sat down with Tito, roughed out a working agreement. The exiled Gov ernment recognized...
It was suddenly postponed until after noon-Don Nelson had a hurry-up summons to the White House. There, presumably, Franklin Roosevelt told Nelson of Wilson's resignation. But Nelson went straight from the White House to address his "harmony" meeting with glowing words for his good friend Charlie...
Late at night (an old Bolshevik custom) the summons came from the Kremlin. Mikolajczyk and his colleagues hurried over. Joseph Stalin greeted them affably. Two and a half hours later, Premier Mikolajczyk left the Kremlin, noncommittal but smiling. His smile was the only political news of his historic conference.
When the King of Siam invited Anna to Bangkok, the royal summons read: "And we hope that in doing your education on us and on our children (whom English call inhabitants of benighted land) you will do your best endeavor for knowledge of English language, science, and literature, and not...
Four cops, warned in advance, followed chubby Critic Bernard DeVoto into a Cambridge, Massachusetts bookstore. So did a Civil Liberties Union lawyer. Then followed a neatly planned little routine. Critic DeVoto asked for a copy of Lillian Smith's Southern novel, Strange Fruit, which had been suppressed by Boston...