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Washington had been hot and steamy. But ever since morning the Presidential C-54 had bored steadily westward. Now, off in the cool Northwest evening, Harry Truman could see the dark green of fir forests, the snowy, glacier-scarred bulk of Mount Rainier. When the plane landed at McChord Field, his old Senate friend, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren, was waiting. Together they drove to the lawn-bordered red brick governor's mansion at Olympia. Then, for five days, Harry Truman forgot the cares of office...
East & West. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, visiting Prague with her Czech husband, Painter Maxim Kopf, found Czechoslovakia facing "eastward [toward Russia] in economic ideas and westward [toward the democracies] in politics." She wrote...
...addition to the movement of Poles westward into Germany, which the Western Allies had sanctioned, large blocks of the German population were being driven eastward to Russia. The Lublin radio broadcast that 7,500,000 Poles were to be moved into Poland's area of the old "eastern Germany...
...first quarter after V-E day (to Aug. 8), an estimated 280,000 men will come back from Europe each month (to speed westward, go to various camps, scurry home on furloughs). In the second quarter (to Nov. 8) the figure will run around 395,000, possibly reaching a peak of 500,000, then tapering...
Will Russia Move West? Like most reformed Communists, Koestler is profoundly suspicious of Soviet intentions. He is convinced that Russian expansion Westward is inevitable, and that expansion, he thinks, will be prompted by a number of things: the nationalistic urge toward "more and more security and power"; the temptation to obtain world trade-lines via the Mediterranean, the Baltic and North Atlantic; the ancient Pan-Slavic tradition; the century-old Russian desire for hegemony over Poland, the Balkans and Constantinople...