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...determined effort to wipe out the rebellious Mohammedans in Sinkiang. Some 10,000 Kazaks were driven out of Barkol, high in the northeast. They fled southward. Some made their way across the frozen Himalayas to India. Some stayed to fight under the leadership of a tribal chieftain named Osman Bator who, singlehanded and armed only with outmoded equipment from China's Nationalists, declared war on the whole Soviet Union...
Died. Osman Bator, 53, anti-Communist Kazakh guerrilla leader, who once declared himself "at war with the Soviet Union," was reported captured in February and accused of being an "armed agent of American imperialism"; by unspecified means of execution; in Urumchi, Sinkiang, China...
Their sponsor was a blue-eyed New Jersey manufacturer named Victor Bator, who had been chased out of Hungary in 1940 by the Nazis, and had built up a prosperous electrical insulating business. Along with Louis Szanto, Virginia tobacco grower, and John F. Montgomery, prewar U.S. minister to Hungary, Bator put up about $100,000 to buy Népszava (circ. 23,000) from its Polish-American owners. The new owners will fight Communism at home & abroad, plug ECA and try to keep alive the idea of a free Danubian federation. They hope to double circulation among Hungarians...
...Western ways by wolfing filet mignons. Communication with them was practically impossible, since they were carefully shepherded away from reporters by their Soviet escort (and interpreter), one Captain V. Krivoshekov. Their only recorded comment: Paris was the most beautiful city they had ever seen, "but so old. In Ulan Bator [Outer Mongolia's capital], now, there is much building-something new popping up all the time...
...Ulan Bator Khoto, capital of Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia, went Chungking's formal recognition of Outer Mongolia's "independence." By giving up all claim to what had once been her frontier province, China paid the price asked last August in the negotiation of the Sino-Russian Treaty...