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...Churchill talked nostalgically of "a new Locarno"; the U.S. Administration, still trying to come to grips with the realities of responsibility, was pinned between the belief that it must seize the initiative from Moscow and the fear that it is not smart enough to avoid falling into a Communist trap...
...Would an oath establish credibility? ... Of course not . . . How silly can this stupidity become . . . Communists, whom it is allegedly the purpose of the oath-demanders to trap, do not hesitate to lie if it serves the . . . party line. Honest men and women, and journals which have built their reputation on their search for truth, refuse to believe that integrity and openness of conduct count for nothing . . . We shall not sign the pledge which he has concocted...
Notable sequences: June Allyson jitterbugging. Van Johnson playing the trap drums, June and Van doing a duet of Toot Toot Tootsie, Goodbye...
Last week Agent Braumoeller was ready to spring his big trap. A second agent had arranged a meeting with the same peddler at another busy street corner (19th and Harrison), and again Photographer Dennison was behind a window shooting the encounter. The two men-peddler and undercover agent-met in the agent's car, where the agent bought the dope with marked money. Suddenly other agents sprang from hiding and pulled the peddler from the car (see cut). The agent who had made the contact stepped out carrying the dope in a paper bag. The Tribune, owned...
...Quincy Adam's real name in Eskimo means "the women." He was given his Boston surname by white traders. John, the chief of the Eskimo crew, delights in telling in his pidgin English of his world travels. The white men who first recruited him took him to Siberia to trap furs. The Russians, however, took his furs from him. Carter described this incident as "just another example of Russian-Alaskan strained relations." He said there have always been ill feelings across the Bering Strait...