Clean-Up Man

Communists, hoping to repeat in London the bloody Ridgway riots that greeted NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway in Paris, failed to take the British character of their countrymen into account. When the Communists tried to spread leaflets, seven were arrested on charges of disorderly behavior and dropping "litter . . . otherwise than in a proper receptacle." Other comrades sneaked up to the U.S. embassy in tree-lined Grosvenor Square and daubed "Yank, Go Home" messages across the windshields of a line of U.S. cars.

Lieut. Colonel Lewis Ellis, assistant U.S. air attache, caught a well-dressed Briton at work on his 1950 Buick. But when he got near, the colonel saw that the Englishman was scrubbing the car clean and had already scrubbed several others. "I was so mad when I saw what the Communists had done," he explained, "that I went straight out and bought a tin of paint remover . . ."

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