Word: ana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reorganize "the general staff of the world revolution." The importance of the move was highlighted by the presence of Andrei A. Zhdanov and Georgi M. Malenkov, both members of Russia's ruling Politburo and close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist Party; Italy's Luigi Longo and Eugenio Reale, and delegates from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary...
...routine cruise to "show the flag," the British warships Amphion and Contest steamed into the harbor of Santa Ana Island in the southern Solomons (which are under a British protectorate). On the beach the Britons saw a strange flag flying from a pole-a yellow field with vertical black stripes. The Amphion's pidgin-English interpreter asked the truculent islanders grouped around the flagpole what the flag stood for. It stood, said the natives, for "Martin Lo"-pidgin English for Marxian law. Communism had arrived among the atolls...
...little distance, six white men were grouped around another flagpole, flying the Union Jack. They were Heinrich Kuper, a German-born, naturalized planter who had lived 30 years on Santa Ana, and his five sons. Kuper suggested that the Amphion fire some star shells into the air. Scared stiff, the followers of Martin Lo lit out for the jungle...
...keep the audience laughing most of the time, and in this Evans, has been supremely successful. The dream scene in which the original Don Juan appears and brings out the philosophical content of the play in a long discussion with the Devil, the Commendatore, and Donna Ana, has been cut. In the light of the Evans interpretation of the play, that is all that can be done. The scene is only occasionally funny and hardly dramatic...
Said Groza: "We are moving forward to the elimination of the last traces of Fascism." He paused significantly. The implication became even clearer when Rumania's Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker swung her jutting chin around toward the royal box, and gave Michael a long, long stare...