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...also a way of telling the Russians what was what. When Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and Washington newsmen were discussing the U.S. decision to draw a defense line in front of Formosa, Japan and the Philippines, Johnson looked around and asked: "Is the Tass man here?" Mikhail ("Mike") Fedorov of Russia's Tass news agency quickly turned and walked away, shaking his lowered head in evident embarrassment. "He heard what you said," a newsman told the Secretary. Replied Johnson: "That's all right. I wanted him to hear that we had drawn the line. That...
...Wavering. Long Moscow's only correspondent in Washington, Todd now shares the load with Mikhail Fedorov, 31, Tass's Ivan-come-lately Washington bureau chief (TIME, Nov. 21), who covers the White House, the Pentagon, Treasury and other agencies, and with Pittsburgh-born Jean Montgomery,*fortyish, who reports for Tass from Capitol Hill. To newsmen who wonder why Todd works for Russia, Todd has a carefully double-negative reply: he would not be working for the Russians if he did not believe they are for a peaceful world...
...November meeting of the Cominform in Hungary, Stalin's representative, Mikhail A. Suslov, emphasized that France, as the key to Western Europe's defense, must not be allowed to rebuild its army. French Communists were to concentrate on sabotaging military reconstruction even if such a program cost them dearly in members and political influence...
...enough on his tour, Sammy hopes to give up his job as a Manhattan accountant and become one of the first full-time U.S. chess pros. And he might decide to enter the U.S. biennial championship tournament this year, might even go to Russia, to challenge World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik...
...Mikhail Suslov, member of the Bolshevik Party's Orgburo...