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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roman J. Halla, 23, arrived in the U.S. a few weeks ago after a year spent as a D.P. in Germany, where he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army while waiting for his chance to come here. When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, Halla was a student at Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University, from which he was promptly expelled for demonstrating with other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached...
Defense officials stuck to their original line: this isn't anything we haven't anticipated. Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray took his vacation as scheduled; other top defense officials went off for the usual routine dinners and speeches across the country...
Warshaw was as much of an impartial observer as the Festival Committee rules allowed. He took notes of meetings and speeches, photographed exhibits, gathered material released by various delegations. On the VOLENDAM'S return trip, as a member of the N.S.A. orientation staff, he led a three-day series of discussions about the Festival which packed the pitching Holland-American liner's dining room with more than 600 students. After the discussions were over, one of the delegation's leaders said that "I may disagree with Warshaw, but he is honest as hell...
...August 23, in a meeting of the entire delegation, Warshaw accused the Steering Committee of withholding the U. S. press summaries. (Another delegate took notes on this meeting: Warshaw now has them in his possession. A third delegate has confirmed their accuracy.) The girl who had made the opening speech admitted that the summaries were not being distributed, and stated that "we are not here as agents of the State Dept., and we are not here to disseminate their propaganda." Shevstated further that the release was "slanted and mistranslated...
...these rumors. "The press coverage of the Festival was biased and one sided; one U.S. newspaper, for instance, ran a story claiming Americans were parading through the streets singing the 'Internationale' and forcing Hungarians to join them. It was not true." He also notes that the U.S. Embassy took a strong interest in the leaders and the political affiliations of the members, and that embassy officials frequently attempted to question delegates as to the composition and leadership of their group. But Warshaw and other returning delegates note that the head of the delegation often used fear of the embassy...