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...History has flung down a challenge to us-perhaps she will do so only once." So spoke Konrad Adenauer, himself a maker of history, as one day last week he challenged the German Bundestag to ratify the Paris accords. The grim-faced old German titan was opening the last and fateful round in the three-year-old battle to rearm West Germany within the Atlantic alliance. On both sides of the Rhine, and of the Iron Curtain, too, all men knew that this time history required that the fight be fought to a finish...
...FALL OF A TITAN, by Igor Gouzenko. An indictment of the Soviet system in the form of a novel by the Russian code clerk who exposed his country's atomic espionage net in Canada and the U.S. An important and frequently exciting exposure of Communist ruthlessness and what it does to those it touches...
...Ottawa's Russian embassy exposed to the Canadian government a Red ring that was stealing atomic secrets. In 1948 his adventures gave Hollywood the excuse and the plot for a vivid anti-Soviet spy thriller, Iron Curtain. Last July he published a powerful novel, The Fall of a Titan, about Russian officialdom, and how one of its high-ups got cut down. Operation Manhunt, a sort of sequel to Iron Curtain, is still another piece of pretty effective anti-Communist propaganda inspired by eager Igor...
...when he found himself and New York's New Dealing Herbert Lehman the only Democrats voting in opposition to a bill. Despite these foibles, by the time he took over the Judiciary Committee in 1943, McCarran was recognized both at home and on Capitol Hill as a political titan. He even managed to exude power while sitting in the Senate restaurant eating milk-soaked graham crackers...
...Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko. A powerful fiction account of the death of Maxim Gorki, by the famed ex-code clerk turned novelist (TIME, June...