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...Wends, you are free!" A newly emerged Wend National Committee (headquarters: Prague) announced in Russian: "Slav representatives have appealed to Marshal Stalin and the Allies to liberate them [the Wends] from the Germans and incorporate them in Czechoslovakia." The committee also exhorted the Wends forthwith to: 1) set up Wend national bodies in all towns and villages; 2) proclaim themselves Wends and Slavs; 3) speak Wendish...
...mane of hair hanging down to her waist. She had had as many men in her life as Sickles had had women-an indiscriminate series of ambassadors, footmen, Italian tenors, cabinet ministers, army privates. Sickles and Isabella reacted like magnet and iron. As a sop to convention, Isabella forthwith converted him to Catholicism, arranged for him a marriage of convenience with one of her ladies in waiting. In Madrid they began to call him "Yankee King of Spain." It was all very perplexing to his friends back home, who knew him as a staunch, republican, Tammany Dutch-Protestant...
...fugitive was Dr. Georgi M. Dimitroff,* pro-Allied ex-Secretary General of the democratic Agrarian Party. He was seeking sanctuary from his Russian-controlled Government, which was trying to arrest him on unspecified charges. In Moscow last week the Russian Government urged the U.S. to hand over Dr. Dimitroff forthwith. In Washington Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew replied that the matter was under discussion with the Bulgarian Premier and Foreign Minister, "who have not yet found a solution that would provide against Dr. Dimitroff becoming a victim of violence...
...delegates of the Labor Party, biggest (170 seats) opposition group in Parliament, met at Blackpool. The chief question before them was: whether to accept Prime Minister Winston Churchill's invitation to stay in the Government until the Japanese war is won-or to quit the coalition forthwith. The answer was emphatic. The conference voted unanimously to quit. Party wiseacres promptly predicted that Mr. Churchill would ask the King to dissolve Parliament and call a general election, probably in July...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was so stirred that he forthwith invited Prime Minister Winston Churchill to send a British Parliamentary delegation to see Buchenwald. With them came a group of American Congressmen touring Britain. The visitors froze with horror. Said Sir Henry Morris-Jones: "It beggars description." Said Representative Gordon Canfield: "This is barbarism." Others would soon be coming to see as well...