Word: battalions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shared with her husband Ivan the later years of consecrated work for The Party-years she remembers now with bitterness. Ivan was taken in the purge of Old Bolsheviks in 1937, broken by torture, and later sent to die in an ill-equipped People's Guard Battalion before the German armored thrust at Moscow. She explains to Ferguson how the Old Bolsheviks, Lenin's friends, triumphed over Stalin in the first hour of the Moscow Trials. Until the Khozyain (the Boss) woke up to what was happening, they stood accused of struggling with him for power...
...Nazis wanted him to tour Germany, playing "anything but Chopin." When he refused, they put him into a work battalion digging trenches. One night he ran away ("Thank God I have long legs"), was smuggled into Austria to join the Polish colony in Vienna. He played Chopin for music-loving Austrians in Salzburg's Mozarteum, Vienna's Musikvereins-Saal. After a private recital in Rome an impresario arranged Andre's first public concert. It was a sellout...
...scene was not prewar Germany, but Jerusalem last week; the colonel no 55 trooper, but one Richard H. L. Webb, commander of the ist Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The detained correspondents included the New York Post's George L. Cassidy, who said Lieut. Colonel Webb explained that Britain's military policy in Palestine is to have her troops "make such a nuisance of themselves [that] the bloody Jews will cease protecting the Stern gang and other terrorists." Colonel Webb added: "I don't care if I'm out of the Army tomorrow...
Cannibal Feast. At least two aviators were beheaded publicly by Matoba's own 308th Battalion, to buoy the troops' morale. In each case, the liver was cut from the still-warm bodies, delivered to Matoba's cook, cut into strips and served in sukiyaki. At one gay party, where the cannibal dish was washed down with sake, Tachibana was Matoba's guest. That night, during a U.S. air attack, Matoba boasted that enemy bombs could not hurt him because he had eaten the enemy's flesh...
Later Dunbar signed on as a war correspondent for the American Associated Negro Press, went ashore at Normandy with a Negro field artillery battalion, was the first foreigner to conduct a symphony orchestra in Paris after the liberation...