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Favors & Flattery. Right at the start of the polemical sham battle over Poland Roosevelt exposed the poverty of the Anglo-American effort. There were two related avenues for a strong U.S. approach: the high principles of self-determination for even the smallest state, and the heavy pressure of such practical measures as Russia's stake in the future of West Germany. Instead, Roosevelt and (sometimes) Churchill couched their main plea to Stalin in terms of petty politicians asking favors. At that level Stalin inevitably bested them...
...church. Red Hilde's family law proclaims the equality of men and women, says that children are to be trained according to their talents, encourages divorce if a marriage "has lost its value ... to society." Recent East-zone court rulings indicate the realities behind such a high-sounding sham. If the state needs miners, a group of youngsters alleged to have mining "talent" are rounded up and packed off to Communist training camps. Parents who protest are charged with "sabotage." Mothers whose "equality" between pregnancies consists of a heavy crop-harvesting quota are deprived of their children if they...
...their fifth birthday the Chinese Communists were busily consolidating and expanding. To start the week, the first People's Congress voted unanimously to re-elect Mao Chairman of the People's Republic and ratified Red China's first constitution, thus ending the sham of coalition government and concentrating still more power in the hands of Mao and his coterie...
When the televised sham battle was over, Major General George I. Back, chief signal officer, hailed it as the beginning of a new era: "Just as the introduction of gunpowder . . . revolutionized the weapons of ground warfare, television will inject an entirely new concept into military communications." Also on hand was Brigadier General (ret.) David Sarnoff, whose Radio Corporation of America had collaborated with the Signal Corps in developing combat TV. Sarnoff also saw "a new era in tactical communications . . . which will enable a commander to keep a watchful eye on every section of the battlefield." General Matthew B. Ridgway, Chief...
...fire ("so as not to wake the servants"), and work in his private study. But at the appointed hour, he hastily undressed again, scurried into his gorgeous State Bedroom, and allowed himself to be officially roused from sleep by his Gentlemen. Nobody thought there was anything extraordinary about this sham ritual, for it was an exact copy of the method by which France was ruled. Just as Louis XV had a State Bedroom in which to lie down officially, so had he "Parlements" and a "Conseil d'Etat"-Bourbon equivalents of the modern dictator's "Soviets...