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Last week the House was far from happy about its resolution asking the Secretary of State whether the Truman-Churchill talks had resulted in any new U.S. troop commitments. Instead of a direct reply from Dean Acheson, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs received merely a letter and press handouts from the department. When the resolution of inquiry came back to the floor, the House shouted down an attempt to drop it, instead set up a cry of protest about the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. G.O.P. Whip Charlie Halleck, scenting an upset, scurried around to line up votes...
...underground room, they found an oldtime Greek Communist named Nicholas Vavoudis dying from the bullet he had fired into his mouth. Near him was a radio receiver and sender, and more records showing how the underground got its orders from Bucharest, dispatched in return reports on politics and troop dispositions...
...observation mission should also be dispatched to that area now to investigate the reports of troop concentrations and airfield construction. Such a mission would act as an impartial collective witness to any actual invasion, enabling it to cut through the inevitable flurry of charges and counter-charges...
...plot revolves around three members of an American intelligence team out to obtain information on German troop movements behind the Rhine. Leader of the team is an American captain. He has no political convictions. He spies because he's ordered to. Tiger, the second agent, is a German POW who has switched sides for better pay. But the central figure is "Happy," a sad-eyed, 19 year old medic, played by Austrian Oskar Werner. He becomes a traitor because he believes in "a life where people are free...
...Nothing Further." Finally the U.N. negotiators offered their opponents a five-point package deal with a take-it-or-leave-it label. The U.N. would agree on: 1) limited instead of unlimited troop rotation; 2) inspection teams from neutral nations for behind-the-lines observation; 3) a double instead of a single inspection system (one group behind the lines, one for the buffer zone; 4) no U.N. air observation; 5) rehabilitation of "certain" North Korean airfields for civilian use. In return the Reds must agree, positively, not to construct or use airfields for military purposes...