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...peculiar request highlighted a peculiar situation last week. Britain, France and the U.S. asked the Kremlin to let an international commission search Russia for missing German prisoners...
Britain, France and the U.S. had no expectation that Moscow would comply with the request to admit a search party. The fact that they even made such a request underscores the weird unreality of diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. In effect, the notes say that the Western powers simply do not believe the Soviet government, and consider it quite capable of either murdering or enslaving hundreds of thousands of helpless prisoners...
...assisted attack bomber. For production of the Air Force's long-range B-36 bomber, Consolidated Vultee had $250 million in Government orders. Lockheed had the fast F94 on the assembly line (see cut) as part of a $225 million backlog. A jet-powered fighter, the F94 has search radar housed in its ball-like plastic nose, can seek out and destroy enemy aircraft approaching through thick clouds and darkness...
...when Browning began eagerly to search for further masterpieces by Christopher Smart, he could find nothing but a dull collection of odes and occasional pieces. Browning did discover, however, that poor Poet Smart had been confined in an asylum just before A Song to David was first published - which prompted Browning to the romantic conclusion that Smart had been no better than a hack while, he had his wits; that when he lost them his dormant genius had burst into bloom...
...Latin America] will you find government exercised as blindly and as brutally as it was by the Emperor Christophe in Haiti. Nowhere will you find such chaos as confronted John L. Stephens when he arrived in Guatemala City on a diplomatic mission from President Van Buren and had to search for a government to which he could present his credentials...