Czech Refugee: Crack in Iron Curtain Rumor Grows
Washington-based refugee observers discuss signs of weakness in the Soviet bloc focusing on Czechoslovakia. They cite frontier openness, democratic traits, high living standards, military anti-Communist sentiment, and reduced trade with non Communist states.
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Russia
Kremlin
Tito
Czechoslovakia
Czech Republic
United States
Ender
Macarvk
Antonin Hasal
Germany
Hasal
Western
Europe
Skoda
Yugoslavia
Czech
Gottwald
Moscow
Moscow Talks Spark Hope amid Berlin Crisis and Inflation Clash
Moscow talks between Stalin and three western ambassadors hint at concessions and a possible deputy ministers meeting to ease the Berlin blockade a step toward thawing East West tensions. Congress adjournment fuels inflation housing blame game as Democrats and Republicans trade barbs with November elections in view. Tax burdens rise with a projected 125 billion dollars in direct personal taxes this year, surpassing spending on homes and essentials.
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Moscow
Josef Stalin
Berlin
Russia
U. S
Great Britain
France
Stalin
Molotov
Congress
Truman
GOP
National Industrial Conference Board
Whittaker Chambers Names Few Officials Before House Panel
Whittaker Chambers, senior Time editor and ex Communist party member, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He named higher echelon government officials linked to the Washington spy ring, including Alger Hiss, Nathan Witt, and Lee Pressman.
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Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Communist Party
House un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Alger Hiss
State Department
Nathan Witt
NLRB
Lee Pressman
CIO
Espionage and mechanization raise wartime fears and cotton shifts
The piece blends a wartime espionage surge linked to Eliza beth Bentley naming officials such as Nathan G. Silvermaster William W. Remington and Alger Hiss with a national shift to mechanized cotton farming. It notes FBI probes and congressional inquiries amid sparse proof and highlights cotton mechanization gains from Virginia to California, including a Mississippi farmer’s cost example and low overall mechanization in 1947.
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Elizabeth Bentley
Nathan G. Silvermaster
Board of Economic Warfare and War Assets Administration
William W. Remington
Commerce Department
Alger Hiss
State Department
United Nations
FBI
Senate
House
Karl Mundt
Rep
S. D
American Activities Committee
Washington
U. S
Virginia
California
South
Mississippi
National Cotton Council
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Grow an outdoor living space with easy patterns for lawn furniture. The catalog shows full size parts and dimensions, step by step directions, and no special tools required. Send 35 cents for Lawn Settee Pattern No. 55 to East-Bird Pattern company, Pleasantville, NY.
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East-Bird Pattern Company
Dept. W
Pleasantville
N. Y
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