Word: attachable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leftists who get caught up in the Communist confession mills have a fair idea of what to expect these days. As long ago as 1940, Budapest-born Arthur Koestler in his novel Darkness at Noon explained something of the techniques used. Thus, when onetime Hungarian Cultural Attaché Paul Ignotus, an active Social Democrat who had read his Koestler, returned to Budapest from Britain to see his ailing father in 1949, he knew the danger he risked. Picked up by the AVO security police a few days after his father's funeral, he was not altogether surprised to find...
...appeared before the embassy, small knots of spectators joined her. Police dispersed them, but as their numbers grew the police were unable to cope with them. Inside the embassy an officer remarked: "Look, we're being demonstrated against." The crowds grew larger, began to stone the embassy; eight attachés took to an air-raid shelter. Chinese police and firemen tried to keep the crowds back with fire hoses, were greeted with howls of derision when they turned on the hose and produced only a feeble spurt of water...
...recent weeks British and U.S. diplomats in Czechoslovakia have had the uncomfortable feeling that they were being followed. Two weeks ago the Foreign Ministry proudly produced results: British Air Attaché Group Captain Cedric Masterman and U.S. Air Attache Colonel D.E. Teberg, they said, had been "apprehended" in a "clearly demarcated forbidden military zone...
...education, and the legislature now has a plan before it to put up at least half the cost of local construction. Mississippi, which would probably get $3 back for every dollar it paid out in taxes on any federal-aid bill, is darkly suspicious that the Government will attach strings to its handouts. Governor J. P. Coleman believes that "the state can take care of its own building program...
Died. Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. 53, Polish composer who came to the U.S. in 1945 as consular attaché in New York City, defected from his country's Communist regime in 1948; of cancer; in Manhattan...