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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial started two defendants short. Russian Orthodox Priest Vladislav Nekliudov, chief among the accused, had hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell. One Alexander Krasilnikov, a former colonel in the Czarist army, was said by the court to be too ill to stand trial. Soviet, Hungarian and Bulgarian newspapers promptly cried that Tito had deliberately eliminated the two defendants, that the trial was fixed. To refute these charges, the Yugoslavs invited reporters to the bedside of ailing defendant Krasilnikov, who showed no evidence that Tito's police had maltreated him. Said he contentedly: "I was never...
...Young Upstarts. On hand to help launch the new organization was a platoon of top U.S. labor leaders, including aging William Green and dynamic David Dubinsky of the A.F.L., straight-talking Walter Reuther and diplomatic Allan Haywood of the C.I.O. Outstanding among the Continental union leaders was The Netherlands' pudgy J. H. Oldenbroek, general secretary of the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation, which has 4,000,000 members in some 45 countries. In the fall of 1944, Oldenbroek helped organize the general strike in Nazi-ruled Holland. In an election this week, he was likely to be chosen...
...honeyed addresses of welcome ended when some delegates charged that Roman Catholic unions on the Continent, which have their own federation (International Federation of Christian Trade Unions), were being excluded from the new organization. Reuther patched up this fight by a compromise: the Catholic unions (which are among the toughest anti-Communist fighters on the Continent) would be invited to come in, but would have to quit or disband their own international organization within two years...
...only the Soviet bloc in opposition and Yugoslavia abstaining, the U.N. General Assembly last week approved the U.S.British-sponsored resolution listing twelve "essentials" for peace and international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 21). Then, by a similar margin, the Assembly rejected the rival Russian resolution proposing a phony non-aggression pact among the big powers and smearing the Western nations as warmongers. The vote meant total defeat for the Russians' major effort at the current Assembly session...
...Duties. From that time on for more than a century, Britannia ruled the waves, and among her stoutest ships was the Duguay. Refitted and rechristened the Implacable, she sailed out in 1808 to fight triumphantly with the Swedes against the Russians, the French and the Danes in the Baltic. Some 30 years later she headed for the Mediterranean with a combined fleet of British, Austrian and Turkish vessels, in the 1840 war against Egypt. A symbolic cock (to show that she was cock of the walk) rode high above her royals when she returned to Britain...