Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blanket decree signed by Dictator Joseph Stalin last week ordered corrected some abuses typical in Soviet collective farming which have been fully described by Soviet officials who have fled Russia, have never been mentioned by dispatches from Moscow. Promptly the New York Times, which has been growing more & more aroused at the difficulty of getting straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms...
Eleven motorcars, flying official Government flags, tore out of the capital last week, took safely to France numerous Leftist personages, and Donna Luis Companys, wife of the President of Catalonia. On foot to France 6,000 persons fled from Leftist Spain. To 5,000 of these who had belonged to the Leftist militia the French Government refused admission. However, it was now the fast-growing Soviet Machine against the German-Italian Machine, and Spaniards found themselves facing the possibility of a civil war prolonged indefinitely-unless the swift, victorious Rightist offensive of recent weeks should quickly prove decisive...
...great newspapers" in an Editor & Publisher survey, specializes in foreign news, spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft. It shot down one of the pursuing planes on the Manchukuo-Soviet border, was itself...
...soldiers of France entered Spain up to this week, but some 6,000 Leftist soldiers fled over the mountainous Pyrenees frontier into France, and of these some 4,000 were promptly shipped by the French back by rail to Loyalist territory. From Barcelona the U. S. diplomatic mission moved 20 miles nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco...
...Moscow's official stamp. By last week the Rumanian Government had also compared the Rome pictures of Butenko with pictures of this New Bolshevik in its files at Bucharest, verified the likeness. Further, the Rumanian Government affirmed that a letter from the Rome Butenko attesting that he "fled voluntarily" and was "not kidnapped" is in the same handwriting as that of the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires who was on duty in Bucharest. There does not seem to be any doubt that Butenko is Butenko and he is in Italy...