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...Pact would increase the rift between East and West; it would again decrease the chances of an eventual reconciliation; and it would be an invitation for Russia to launch a retaliative measure. In other words, the Pact might become just another link in the international game of tit-for-tat which brings war closer and closer...
...Tat. If the Russians wanted to create an exciting diversion, they did their work well. Twenty Soviet Tommy-gunners set up a roadblock in the British sector. Up wheeled British armored vehicles, backed by 100 troopers, and off moved the Russians. Two little American girls wandered off and 300 soldiers spent six frantic hours finding them. "We just got on a bus," explained one of the tots casually...
...operetta which (thus far) had carried Rumania's 26-year-old King Michael and pretty Princess Anne Antoinette Franchise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma through a lyrical, whirlwind courtship amidst the glitter of a British royal wedding and the dark second act of a Communist coup d'état in Bucharest...
Died. General Constantin Sanatescu, 62, reluctant Premier of Rumania's first, pro-Allied Government after her surrender in August 1944; of cancer; in Bucharest. Co-engineer with King Michael of the coup d'état that overthrew the Fascist puppet-masters, Sanatescu fell into disfavor with the Russians after three months as premier, quit, became inspector general of the Army...
...last national elections were held before the R.P.F. was mobilized. To what extent, therefore, would De Gaulle view the municipal voting as a mandate? "Faster Than I Thought." Gaullist hot heads urged the dreamy, inscrutable General to seize power at once. But he dislikes coups d'état. His top political adviser, Novelist André Malraux, advised prudence and the General favors prudence...