Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Communists there was smug mirth. Their press mocked America's "atomaniacs." In Italy, pro-Soviet Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni (just back from a 15-day junket to another "peace" congress in Moscow) proudly pinpointed the site of the explosion in "eastern Siberia." In the town of Santeramo near Bari, Communists got the news in the middle of the night, raced in nightshirts and dressing gowns to a hasty rally where a speaker promised: "We Communists will have our headquarters at the White House! Washington shall be ours...
...Union . . . building work on a large scale is in progress-hydroelectric stations, mines, canals, roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic energy, added Tass casually, Vyacheslav Molotov had announced back in 1947, when he was still Foreign Minister, that Russia had mastered its secret...
...glow seemed to spread over the whole General Assembly on its opening day of firmly fixed smiles and heavy hand-pumping. Delegates exchanged greetings with an almost perfectly uniform ritual: strong right-hand clasp, affectionate left-hand pat on the back. The official nurse, on duty just across a corridor from the General Assembly Hall, dispensed only one headache powder the first day (to a Chilean delegate...
...news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note: "President Truman has just announced that Russia has the atom bomb. Amen." Trygve Lie, at Romulo's side, scribbled a quick reply: "If true, it makes the U.N. all the more indispensable." Then he sat back to await Andrei Vishinsky's scheduled address...
Rajk was vehement in his protestation of guilt: "I declare in advance that whatever the sentence may be, I shall consider it just." While the sentence was being read, Rajk stood between two grey-uniformed guards, his hands clasped behind his back; spectators close to him saw that he was digging his fingernails deep into the flesh. The verdict: death on the gallows for Rajk and two fellow defendants, life imprisonment for two more, nine years for another. Soldier Palffy will be sentenced separately by "a court-martial...