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Stalin and Lavrenty Beria. Last week Police Chief Beria, the home-town boy, was back in Tiflis (pop. 520,000), capital of Georgia, to undo a purge that rivaled the bizarre fantasy of the Soviet doctors...
...made his mistakes, some of them thumping big ones. He misread Tito, lost the airlift battle of Berlin, mis judged U.S. reaction to the invasion of South Korea. Above all, he and his "fellow Politburocrats allowed the nakedness of Communist aggression to alert the West to rearm. To undo that "error" is now the principal external target of Russia's peace offensive...
Slansky Stays Hanged. Did the new reversal also undo the Kremlin's anti-Zionist campaign? Hard-pressed Israel hoped it did, and expressed its readiness to resume diplomatic relations with Moscow. The Kremlin had broken with Israel as one of the repercussions of the "fiendish" plot that was now proclaimed a phony. (Another alleged plot of the Zionists, the one in Czechoslovakia, could not be undone so easily: Communist Rudolf Slansky and ten of his pals had already been garroted...
...amount of apology or police diligence could undo the damage, since the bomb could not have served Soviet leaders better if they had touched it off themselves. It would have been normal for the Kremlin to accept Israel's apologies: in 1927, for example, when a White Russian killed the Soviet ambassador to Poland, Moscow contented itself with a strong note of protest. This time the Kremlin obviously had been awaiting a pretext...
...newspapers and in 52 others all over the world. Dennis, who is not intimidated by his view of the world between a clutter of long adult legs, is the constant winner in his never-ending war with the exasperated adults who surround him. For example, he can easily undo both his mother and her tea guest by standing between them with a fur coat draped over his arms and blurting out: "I showed Mrs. Taylor your new fur coat, Mom, but she didn't turn green like you said she would...