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When comrade leaders say a man is a Hero of Work, he is a Hero of Work, period. One day last month, Willy Knoblauch got a telegram summoning him to East Berlin to a Heroes of Work Festival. He kissed his wife & two children goodbye and boarded a train for East Berlin...
...first news that U.S. occupation authorities had of their boner was an indignant telegram from a German official: "WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" Quite by chance, the German had picked up a new history textbook sponsored and financed by the High Commissioner's Office for use in the schools. It had taken little more than a glance to see that the $47,600 Synchronoptische Weltgeschichte (translated Synchronoptic World History) was shot through with Communist propaganda...
Among the thousands of congratulatory messages received by Dwight Eisenhower on the morning of his election was a telegram from the man he was soon to succeed. Wired Harry Truman: "Congratulations on your overwhelming victory. The 1954 budget must be presented to Congress before January 18 . . . You should have a representative meet with the Director of the Budget immediately." Then came a typical Truman slur: "The Independence will be at your disposal if you still desire to go to Korea...
...barely got to bed in the Jones cottage on the edge of the golf course, when he was rolled out by another telegram from Harry Truman. The President, anxious that there be "an orderly transfer of the business of the Executive Branch of the Government," invited Ike to come to the White House "to discuss the problems of this transition period . . ." Next day Eisenhower accepted Truman's invitation, but proposed that the meeting should not be held until the week beginning Nov. 17, "because I obviously require a reasonable time for conversations and conferences leading up to the designation...
...many other notable people involved, the State Department must give specific reasons for its actions. . . Otherwise, how can one know whether to criticize the State Department or the law or whether indeed there is even a basis for such criticism. So far two letters and one telegram to Dean Acheson are un-answered...