For the Record

There has been a sudden reversal in attitude on the part of UN officials in regard to some aspects of the Povl Bang-Jensen case in the past ten days. The beleaguered Dane has finally been given access to the papers he was working on at the time the top brass had him escorted out of the building by UN guards.

Galled by restrictions on their freedom of movement, Poles are repeating to each other: “The Russians and the Americans are trying to reach the moon. When do you suppose we’ll see Paris?”. … Communist East Germany has released official figures revealing that 82,000 men and women in the 18 to 26 age group fled to the West during 1957. . . . The Canadian Government has volunteered to finance “repatriation” of 3,000 “Freedomites” to the Soviet Union, the only condition being that the members of the sect renounce Canadian citizenship.

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There has been a sudden reversal in attitude on the part of UN officials in regard to some aspects of the Povl Bang-Jensen case in the past ten days. The beleaguered Dane has finally been given access to the papers he was working on at the time the top brass had him escorted out of the building by UN guards.

Galled by restrictions on their freedom of movement, Poles are repeating to each other: “The Russians and the Americans are trying to reach the moon. When do you suppose we’ll see Paris?”. … Communist East Germany has released official figures revealing that 82,000 men and women in the 18 to 26 age group fled to the West during 1957. . . . The Canadian Government has volunteered to finance “repatriation” of 3,000 “Freedomites” to the Soviet Union, the only condition being that the members of the sect renounce Canadian citizenship.