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Soviet Korea diary details and official dinner satire
The diary notes by Pauley recount Soviet pressure in Korea including guards with gummy guns, a covert machine shop find, and propaganda efforts. It also covers a Washington dinner where Truman, Bricker, and many officials were present, with satirical sketches mocking politicians and a Marine Band performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauley
Hit
Yater Chistiakov
Truman
John W. Bricker
R-O
Republican
Lke
Thorouaa
Evenice
Bricker
Washington
Hotel Statler
U. S. Marine Band
William F. Santelmann
Raymond P. Brandt
St. Louis Post - Dispatca
Brandt
Fred M. Vinson
Supreme Court
Jame
F. Byrnes
Congress
Sen
Alben W. Barkley
D-Kyi
Wallace H. White
Rep
Josep W. Martin CR
Mass House
Hugh Baillie
United Press
Roy W. Howard
Jack Howard
Scripps-Howard
Julius Ochs Adler
New York Times
Paul Patterson
H. L. Mencken
Baltimore Sun
Joseph Pulitzer
Ben Reese
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
William Green
AFL
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Martin
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Gome
Harry F. Byrd
Vai
Napoleon Bonaparte Wallace