COMMUNISTS: An Unfriendly Gesture

In front of the United States Information Service library in Prague last week, sizable crowds stood staring into a large display window. The display consisted of some 200 portraits of assorted world notables, all taken from the covers of TIME. In the center, in large letters, was writ ten: "Who Are They?" Britain's Princess Margaret was there, side by side with Russia's Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, Hollywood's Gregory Peck, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, and the theater's redoubtable Tallulah Bankhead. At week's end, one of the 200 faces had been changed. The features of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary had been replaced...

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