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...leaders executed by Stalin. Hungary's Communist Party Boss Rakosi, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht (who likened Stalin worship to the Führer cult) and Italy's Togliatti each made statements downgrading Stalin's position. In Manhattan Daily Worker Editor Alan Max asked himself aloud some surprisingly pertinent questions: "Many things bother a person like myself: Where were the present [Soviet] leaders during the period when they say that collective leadership was lacking? What about their own mistakes in that period?" At this sign of shilly-shallying, U.S. Communist Boss William Z. Foster replied...
...table. Occasionally Ann Whitman, his personal secretary, went in for dictation of a few paragraphs. Speechwriter Kevin McCann, Aides Adams and Persons and News Secretary James Hagerty moved in and out, but essentially it was the President's own message in his own words. He read the speech aloud three times, timing himself as he did so, making changes each time...
...There ain't gonna be no war," cried Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan in the afterglow of Russian smiles at the first Geneva meeting at the summit. Last week the NATO nations, sweaty in their armor under the fitful post-Geneva sun, were somewhat shamefacedly wondering aloud whether all that weight was really necessary. They sometimes had the air of men trying to remember what all the excitement had been about. Implied but never stated was a bigger question: "Is NATO itself really necessary...
...Kelly, began receiving-in the columns of papers serviced by Hearst's King Features Syndicate. In ten "intimate," as-told-to installments, titled "My Daughter Grace Kelly, Her Life and Romances," Mrs. Kelly counted aloud: "Men began proposing to my daughter Grace when she was barely 15 ... Prince Rainier III . . . was at least the 50th man." Father Francis J. Tucker, the Prince's American chaplain, topped Mrs. Kelly by putting his by-line on two series about the Prince, one for I.N.S., the other in the Philadelphia Inquirer...
Hong Kong relies on Red China for much of its food supply. Communists hold strong positions in Hong Kong unions of shipyard, transport, electrical, gas and water-system workers, and there are indications, never said aloud, that the Reds also have some strength in the police. They are busy within the school system...