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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Konstantin Rokossovsky, who only the week before had been a marshal of the Red army and a Soviet citizen, settled down in Warsaw to his new job as Marshal of Poland and Minister of National Defense. In Paris, the journal La Croix mused: "What would our Communist papers say if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Child of the People | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Strapping (6 ft. 4 in.), blue-eyed, blond Konstantin Rokossovsky, 52, a hard-hitting Red army field commander in World War II, had in point of fact been born in Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Child of the People | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Last week, taking over the Polish army "as a Pole," Rokossovsky announced that one of its general orders would be to guard "the inviolability of the frontier [with Germany] on the Oder and Neisse." U.S. observers had several more or less plausible theories on why Rokossovsky had been sent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Child of the People | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

By last week, Lange's shop was 70% rebuilt, and he had finally been able to fill the last of his back orders. To Barber Charles Liddy of Castleblayney, Ireland, who had sent in a paid-up order in 1939, Lange shipped six new Solingen razors. Included in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Unavoidable Delay | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Political Passion. Ever since the tragic Bogota uprising of April 9, 1948, Colombia had been drifting toward just such a moment of force. Liberals, having healed the division that cost them the presidency in 1946, used their congressional majority to push the election date seven months forward in expectation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Revolution of the Right | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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