Last week, as every week, brought a flow of refugees from Stalin's satellites to the free West.
¶ On to the U.S. Army airstrip near Coburg, Germany, descended a Fieseler-Storch helicopter, and out stepped two young men in work clothes, followed by two well-dressed young women. In excellent English they explained that they had refused to join the Czech Communist Party and wanted refuge. The two men had worked for the Schiidlings-bekamp-fungsinstitut (Institute for Fighting Vermin), spraying plants with DDT from the copter. Instead of finishing their DDT run, they simply headed west. One of the girls had also worked...
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