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...embassy official, Marshall Brement, a career diplomat, fluent in Russian and Chinese. His Soviet visa was canceled a few days after he arrived in the U.S. on a home leave. Even more significantly, the Kremlin has failed to respond to the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon as the next American envoy to the Soviet Union. The Soviets may be displeased with Toon, a blunt career diplomat, who is an expert on East European affairs and who served two prior tours in Moscow. But they have not offered a single word of explanation of why no action...
...full of food, the vignette seems at first too recognizable. Any mother would bring along a chicken. But only Mrs. Lapinsky would present it snuggled in a pot, surrounded with potatoes and vegetables all cleaned and carefully cut, ready for the front burner. The scene becomes a classic car toon with a new caption...
Many State Department professionals, however, are hoping against hope that the new ambassador will be one of their own. If Nixon does decide on a Soviet expert, there is a consensus among Foreign Service officers that it will be Malcolm Toon, a veteran Kremlinologist who has served two previous tours of duty in Moscow, and is currently Ambassador to Yugoslavia...
...work spread to such influential British newspapers as the Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian. In a House of Commons press conference a fortnight ago, two honorably discharged British soldiers, formerly wardens in a Nicosia detention camp, told of brutal beatings of prisoners. Said ex-Serviceman David Toon: "We felt it our duty to speak. We feel that people in this country, and government officials here, have no knowledge of the harsh treatment meted...
Hickest of the Hick. During the day, as Author Charles Angoff makes clear in a book that is really a nonstop conversation piece, Mencken's vice was word-intoxication. Profane, scatological and childishly bigoted, Mencken uttered a good many words that probably belonged in the spit toon, but they lodged vividly in the memory of Russian-born, Harvard-educated Charles Angoff. Critic, Novelist and Edi tor Angoff has a legitimate claim to know Mencken well-from 1925 to 1933 he was Mencken's sole editorial associate on the Mercury. But this will only partly help the reader...