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...Worse Than Versailles." The Reds' operative word was the magic "unity." Last week the German "People's Council" (a Communist front) trumpeted that the London plan was "far worse than the Treaty of Versailles." The Reds offered an eight-point counterproposal. The gist: Germany must be one nation, indivisible; an all-German provisional government must be formed immediately; Bizonia and all plans for a Western state must be liquidated; Germany must have a voice in future peace negotiations...
...would give Western Germany (or any part of Germany) the political organization and the economic incentive to go to work for Europe's benefit, the Western powers had to see what they could do by themselves. This week, the conference announced agreement on "recommendations" to its governments. The gist: convoke a constituent assembly to set up a democratic Western German government. If the Russians want to bring their zone in, fine-otherwise nichevo...
...deathbed issue of Manhattan's Communist New Masses last January, twelve Russian Communist writers addressed an open letter to their colleagues in the U.S. The gist of it: Whose side are you on? Last week, in the resurrected and rebaptized Masses & Mainstream, 32 U.S. writers, painters and musicians published their answer. Its gist: We're on your side, comrades...
Lewis waited four days. Then he wrote his miners again. The gist of it: "I never told you to strike. This is all your own idea...
...Khan, replied to the Indian. For 3¼ hours (breaking Andrei Vishinsky's U.N. record of two hours), he spoke without script, working only from notes passed up on an assembly-line basis by his advisers. On the third day, Sir Mohammed spoke 2½ hours more. His gist: India was lying, was itself guilty of racial war against Pakistan or-in U.N.'s own word for it -of "genocide." Cried he: "[Moslems] are expected to say: 'My brother may have been killed, my father may have been killed, my wife may have been raped...