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...complained to his wife about their problem of trying to make ends meet on his modest annual salary of about $5,000. She suggested that they "go to the Russians." Whereupon he wrote out a note stating his name, rank and naval assignment as an antisubmarine warfare and torpedo specialist at the British naval base in Portsmouth, and Maureen delivered it to the Russian embassy in London. After he left the hospital, the Soviets invited him to London for a meeting. Over vodka, they gave him $1,200 as an initial payment, as well as instructions to photograph "anything...
...alternatives are poor. Openly fight Peking's entry for another year? That would completely negate the Administration's laudable moves toward a limited rapprochement and could torpedo Nixon's trip to Peking. Put Taiwan over the side? A precipitous U.S. abandonment of the regime, simply because Peking demands it, would be instantly recognized as shabby and immoral. Moreover, by placing in doubt the value of a U.S. commitment, it would send destabilizing shivers through all of Asia. There is no guarantee that it would improve relations with Peking...
...everybody agreed. Former Laborite Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart said the expulsions created too much of a "splash." Some critics complained that the Tories were trying to torpedo the projected European security conference, through which the Soviets hope to win Western recognition of the status quo in Eastern Europe. In fact, the British action appears to have been carefully timed to avoid damaging the conference. The British waited to move until after the four-power Berlin agreement was signed last month, and they acted well before the meeting, which is not likely to take place before...
...directive even ordered Washington officials not to discuss the arrangements, agenda or policy implications of the summit conference with newsmen. Not only does Peking insist upon secrecy, it was explained, but the Communist world usually takes as officially inspired any speculation in the U.S. press, so a misstatement could torpedo the sensitive talks. Actually, the Administration's clampdown may well have an effect opposite to the one desired. Speculation about the meaning of a major move announced by the President with considerable drama is both proper and inevitable in an open democracy. The unusual blackout could produce uninformed guessing...
...mill about in their social bondage of marriages, families, businesses, religions, political parties and national allegiances. A friend who heard Ibsen fulminating at the playwright BjØrnson's home in 1883 said of him: "He is an absolute anarchist, wants to make a tabula rasa, put a torpedo under the whole Ark; mankind must begin again at the beginning of the world . . . the great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions-to destroy...