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Next evening Truman was back at the barricades in another sector: he turned his attention to the "hypocritical" and "frantic" critics of corruption and disloyalty in government. In a nationally broadcast speech to the Civil Service League, he accused his critics of "a ruthless, cynical attempt to put over a gigantic hoax and fraud on the American people" to distract attention from the real issues of the day. Said Truman: "Political gangsters are attempting to pervert the [loyalty] program into an instrument of intimidation and blackmail, to coerce or destroy any who dare to oppose them . . . They have not hesitated...
...Private Robert Natskakula, U.S.A.,who deserted to Berlin's East sector two years ago just as he was about to be shipped home as "undesirable," walked into the Army C.I.D. office, flanked by three tough civilians. Good guess: Natskakula had been decoyed back into the Western zone, then grabbed by Army intelligence operatives. He was whisked through a U.S. court-martial, which sentenced him to a year and a half in jail and dishonorable discharge. While in East Berlin, Deserter Natskakula had starred briefly as a noble "peace fighter" who couldn't stand U.S. warmongering...
Journalist Treiber had made a dreadful mistake: Pankow is in the Russian sector of Berlin, not as he had thought in one of the Western sectors. When Freies Volk discovered Treiber's error, it quickly printed an abject retraction: "Rudi Treiber has been unmasked [and fired] ... as a liar and an agent provocateur." Said ex-Comrade Treiber lamely: "I just didn't know where Pankow...
...Plan. SHAPE divided its front into three parts: a central stronghold of Western Europe, with flanks on the north (Norway, Denmark) and south (Italy and the Mediterranean). Commands were set up in each sector. An international staff at SHAPE, under General Alfred M. Gruenther, centralized all planning...
...population of each sector...