Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...liability side, the U. S. has a weak army and air force. It is not firm in a will to fight as are the Nazis. The U. S. is also perilously weak in potential allies on whose resources and aid it can count...
...Polish refugees, soldiers of the Red Army seized Prince Janusz and a half-dozen of his family (including married daughters) and shipped them to prison in Moscow. On hearing of this, Queen Elena of Italy, a family connection, appealed to Chancellor Hitler. He ordered the German Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg, to try to free the distinguished Poles...
...time Nazi pressure, applied by Count von Schulenberg, began to be felt by the Communist authorities, the imprisoned Radziwills had become thin and emaciated. Suddenly their Moscow prison rations were changed from short to long. The same official of the Soviet Political Police who had starved and questioned them then stood over the Radziwills to make sure they ate every morsel on their now heaping plates. They were kept from the usual prison exercise period, suffered gastritis from the intensive stuffing process. But the Radziwills were fattened up to something like normal in three weeks...
...middle of the week, no one was as much interested in casualties as in the election results. Official results would not be announced until September, but it was expected that after meeting last week the juntas computadoras (vote-counting boards) would let the public have a preview peek at the count. As if the opposition candidate had any hopes of winning in spite of the preposterously fixed election, the Government assembled truckloads of pistoleros to keep Almazanistas from getting nosy. One Government spokesman was admirably frank. Said he, apparently in English, to Jack O'Brine of the New York...
...counting was peaceful-and absurd. "Unofficial official results": General Avila Camacho, 2,265,199 votes; General Almazán, 128,574 votes. Impartial observers were unanimous in denouncing this count as unashamedly rigged. Somewhat more modest, but no more dependable, was the opposition claim that General Almazán had carried 150 out of 172 electoral districts. The result as both sides stuck to their figures and fingered their triggers, was a deadlock. As tension mounted, Federal police raided General Almazán's Mexico City offices and seized his personal and business papers. The Attorney General...