Word: lastingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Paris heard last week that the Communists planned a full-scale attack on Tonkin's Red River delta at the next full moon. Premier Rene Pleven called General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, one of France's best soldiers, and asked him to take on the tough job of defending Indo-China. Said De Lattre: "I accept because it is my duty...
Indo-China waited tensely for the next Communist move. If Red-backed Ho Chi Minh attacks with his Viet Minh army, De Lattre may throw him back, but if the Chinese pour in, as they have in Korea, the slim French forces will have to pull out. Last week the foreign colony which gathers at Hanoi's Metropole Hotel rustled with rumors. Some said that the Chinese were already advancing from Langson, others that there was a deal on with the Viet Minh. The Metropole's atmosphere was one of anxious, noisy gaiety. Foreign newsmen met with free...
East Berlin's Reds last week staged a new play at the Kammerspiel theater to explain the U.S. Written by Gustav von Wagenheim, a resident of Moscow for twelve years, it is called Auch in Amerika (In America Too), and dedicated "to Howard Fast and the youth of America who do not want war." The setting: a peaceful, lakeside American cottage inhabited by grandfather (wiped out by the big trusts), father (worried about his $125,000-a-year job), mother (worried about father) and son Larry (worried about everybody...
...Last week, Friedenau got his best chance yet to nail Red lies when the East German Communists imprisoned seven Thuringian bank officials after a trial at Erfurt on trumped-up charges of "sabotage." Friedenau knew all about...
...four months he had had in his possession the complete Communist file of the evidence, prepared by the trial's original prosecutor, handsome, 34-year-old Heinz Perscheid, who fled to West Germany last August rather than proceed with the case. Perscheid's dossier was dynamite. It proved that the Red's judicial masquerade was staged to smash the Liberal Democratic Party, to which the defendants belonged, because it had refused to collaborate with the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party. Perscheid had received special tutelage from Fritz Lange, chairman of East Germany's State Control Commission. Perscheid...