Word: arens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aren't Czechs." If the Finns prove stiffnecked, the Soviet chiefs will have to decide whether to use direct high-pressure methods or try to take over the country with an inside job. Finland has no real defense against direct pressure, but might try an open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said...
...Social Democratic Party said: "The Communists may try their tricks, but you will see, here we can control the workers." One of his colleagues said: "You think we'll weaken, but you don't know Finlanders." And then he added an echo of pure 1939: "We aren't Czechs...
...middle-aged lady expressed the meaning of Police Day when she approached a U.S. correspondent who was waiting, in his U.S. car, for the light to change at a Prague streetcorner. "You are an American, aren't you?" she asked. "Please ask your government to do something. We suffer so much...
...vodka bottles. There were endless toasts -for the glorious Red Army and its beloved leader, Comrade Stalin; for generals, colonels, majors, captains and so on. One guest reported later: "After the toast for the captains the party lost dignity." Thorez chummily first-named the ambassador: "We are all friends, aren't we, Alex, and brothers...
...Things aren't as black as this might indicate, though. Norris is almost certain to win the 440, as he has already done seven times this year, and diver Tom Drohan, with six firsts and a second in competition so far, is a god but in the dive...