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Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita, Pale Fire), who saw by the papers that he would be a participant at Edinburgh International Writers’ Conference, publicly demanded that his name be dropped when he noted that Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertrand Russell, J-P. Sartre “with whom I would not consent to participate in any festival or conference whatsoever” were listed as fellow guests…. Ivan Spiridonov, first to propose that Stalin’s body be removed from Red Square mausoleum, has been dropped from Central Secretariat of Soviet CP…. Nation Française reveals secret order by Minister of Algerian Affairs Louis Joxe forbidding French authorities in Algeria to allow the harkis (native troops who fought with France against the FLN) to emigrate to France—although many already have been murdered by Algerian nationalists…. Algerian Information Minister Mohamed Yazid has told Iron Curtain reporters that the FLN will establish its “own socialism”; institute immediate land reforms ; bar France from testing A-bombs in Sahara ; throw out NATO bases.

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Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita, Pale Fire), who saw by the papers that he would be a participant at Edinburgh International Writers’ Conference, publicly demanded that his name be dropped when he noted that Ilya Ehrenburg, Bertrand Russell, J-P. Sartre “with whom I would not consent to participate in any festival or conference whatsoever” were listed as fellow guests…. Ivan Spiridonov, first to propose that Stalin’s body be removed from Red Square mausoleum, has been dropped from Central Secretariat of Soviet CP…. Nation Française reveals secret order by Minister of Algerian Affairs Louis Joxe forbidding French authorities in Algeria to allow the harkis (native troops who fought with France against the FLN) to emigrate to France—although many already have been murdered by Algerian nationalists…. Algerian Information Minister Mohamed Yazid has told Iron Curtain reporters that the FLN will establish its “own socialism”; institute immediate land reforms ; bar France from testing A-bombs in Sahara ; throw out NATO bases.