Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Freddie Field got his name in the newspapers once more: Manhattan newspapers discovered that Field, quietly divorced from his second wife some time ago, had quietly married, in Nevada last July, Anita Cohen Boyer, divorced wife of Dr. Raymond Boyer. Dr. Boyer is serving out a two-year sentence (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947) for complicity in Russia's wartime espionage plot against Canada...
After nine months of negotiating, Britain and Yugoslavia last week signed a five-year trade agreement. It called for a ?110 million ($308,100,000) volume of trade each way. Yugoslavia will get an ?8,000,000 loan, payable in five years. The Yugoslavs will exchange timber, corn and non-ferrous metals for British machinery, wool, chemicals and rubber products. At the same time, the two governments agreed to a settlement of ?4,500,000 for British property nationalized by Yugoslavia. Only four days before, the Yugoslav government had concluded a $126 million one-year trade agreement with Western Germany...
...lengthy report to the Yugoslav Parliament, Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj last week boasted: "Relations with the United States, Great Britain and France have been improved . . . The U.S.S.R. has said that no country can exist unless it is under the thumb of a hegemonistic power . . . We have proved it can . . . While dogs bark, the caravan passes...
...China has been mightily angry with Prime Minister Nehru's India. For months the Peking radio and press have assaulted the New Delhi government as an agent of "reactionary imperialists." Last week the propaganda insults touched an arrogant high. The Chinese Communist Youth Federation wired a "protest" to Nehru over sentences meted out to left-wing terrorists in Hyderabad (including 30 death penalties). The telegram sputtered with "deep indignation over . . . this Fascist atrocity," demanded immediate "canceling of these sentences...
Peace had come to battered, impoverished Greece; the Communist guerrillas had been driven out, perhaps for good. But last week, on Innocents' Day (the Church calendar's anniversary of Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents in Judea), Greece had a day of mourning-for 28,000 children abducted by the bandits and now living on foreign, Communist soil...