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...secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently too discursive, makes engrossing reading whenever he gets out of the way and lets the court record speak for itself...
...threat of aggression casts its shadow upon every quarter of the globe," he soberly reported to Congress last week. "The Soviet Union has dedicated itself to the destruction of democracy and everything which it represents, and is waging a grim struggle to make the entire free world slave . . . Moreover, her success in producing an atomic explosion has given [Soviet actions] new and frightening overtones that free nations cannot ignore...
Anyway, Le Corbusier added, "the little house is finished. And it's a good thing because my mother was the slave of the little house ... I want to make life as luxurious as a first-class cabin on an ocean liner...
...read a dozen suitable speeches. It was ailing Ernie Bevin who raised his tired head from his hands to express the spirit of what he called the "great Atlantic brotherhood." Said he: "We firmly believe that in the end the free man can never be vanquished by the slave...
...over the country, customarily cheerful ticos were wrapped in deepest gloom. "The Most Sacred Little Black One," said by tradition to have been given by the Virgin to a negro slave girl at the site of the basilica more than 300 years ago, is Costa Rica's most venerated relic. Costa Ricans took what hope they could from the old legend that the image had disappeared once before in colonial days, only to turn up again...