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...celebrated its first anniversary, the new Hungarian Republic was in the iron clasp of Russian economic control, and further squeezed by Russia's campaign to achieve political control as well. In charge of the campaign was a short, little-known secret police career man named Boris Osakin, who bore the inconspicuous title of Deputy to the Soviet Ambassador. From his desk at the Soviet Embassy in Budapest, half a dozen direct wires connect him with the leaders of Hungary's Communist Party. The wires have been buzzing lately...
...Recorder. Blackford wrote home as often and as fully as possible, realizing that impressions faded quickly and eager to preserve as much of his experience as he could. "I fear all these stories bore you," Blackford apologized to his wife. But 20th Century readers will be grateful for the sharp little anecdotes and graphic glimpses on almost every page. Samples...
...first the Communist Party did the American Veterans Committee a favor: it denounced the A.V.C. as a "bunch of Ivy Leaguers," ordered Communists to bore into the American Legion instead. But the Legion was no pink tea party. A year ago the comrades got orders to countermarch into the A.V.C...
...brothers joined His Majesty's forces in 1939, but the war only slowed their digging. They hurried back to the Humber at every leave to spot, in 1940. a second boat. When they were "demobbed" last year, a corps of enthusiasts joined the sloshy fun, extracted the boats, bore them off for exhibition in London. Experts pronounced them boats of the ancient, blue-dyed Britons, older than Julius Caesar by about 400 years...
...lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled badly. So did the Golden. Scoronine led the field until the last day, then refused to plunge into the 45° water. (Shed had won his first U.S. championship on a day that...