Foreign News: Big Little Man

Americans and Britons, going home from Teheran, took with them an unforgettable portrait of an unforgettable figure: Joseph Stalin. Never before had he been viewed by so many of his allies; never before had he loomed so sharply. Those who had seen him conveyed a vivid impression to the world:

Stalin was the dominant personality at Teheran. Perhaps partly because he was new to so many there, he bulked over both Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt.

Marshal Stalin is 5 ft. 5 in. tall. But there was magnetism and a certain majesty in the figure with the brushlike mane, iron-grey mustache, a bright...

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