Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hickenlooper's was just about the only encouragement that Joe McCarthy got all week long. Even before Lattimore took the stand, Republican Henry Cabot Lodge told the Senate that McCarthy had proved none of his charges. Then Republican Seth Richardson, who heads the Civil Service Commission's Loyalty Review Board, and Republican Conrad Snow, who heads State's own security board, testified that the whole loyalty program had not turned up a single example of espionage...
...instead of 320.000 in McCarran's bill) of the world's homeless. It made eligible 5,000 Italians dislodged from the Trieste area taken over by Yugoslavia, 18,000 members of General Anders' Polish army now in Britain, 10,000 Greeks made homeless by civil war, and some 4,000 White Russians who fled from Communist-held Shanghai to the Philippines. Provision was made to admit 54,744 Germans expelled after the war by neighboring nations...
...million people are . . living, working, producing their daily bread, marrying, bearing children . without the 'help' of any capitalists, landlords or employers . . . But, somebody may say, isn't Russia a pretty tough sort of place? What about the purges and the shootings and the lack of civil liberties . .? Yes, Russia is pretty tough Things have happened there which I,'for one, most passionately hope may never happen in Britain. But let us never forget this. It is very largely we and the other capitalist states of the world who have made Russia tough...
Four Prisons in Dibra Street. Shehu, now 37, was graduated from Albania's American Vocational School in 1932. In the Spanish civil war he fought in the Red-led Garibaldi Brigade. He went back to Albania in 1942 to lead the Tito-organized resistance movement along with Hoxha. In 1945 Shehu was shipped to Moscow, returned the next year to become chief of staff of the Albanian army and general secretary of the party. He is Albania's only Moscow-trained Communist leader. Shehu, a 100-proof career Stalinist, has more ability, guile, circumspection and hardheadedness than Hoxha...
...morning early in April a pair of U.S.-built Nationalist Mustang fighters swooped down to strafe Communist shipping in Hangchow Bay south of Shanghai. They were suddenly jumped from above, shot down by Communist planes: It was the first time in China's civil war that the Nationalists had met with aerial opposition. A rescued Nationalist pilot said his attackers flew Russian-built LA9 fighters. Six days later, the Nationalists claimed their pilots had encountered 25 Russian-made planes in the Shanghai area...