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...managed to escape, found his way to Palestine, and cast his lot and his hopes for the future with the Irgun Zwei Leumi, the party that fought with the fiercest zeal against the British for Israel nationalism. But uppermost in Malchiel's mind was the fate that had befallen his relatives in Hungary. A bent, grief-stricken man in his 70s, he set himself the task of finding out who had betrayed them. Last year, after poring through mountains of yellowed records, he pointed the finger of blame at Rudolf (now Israel) Kastner, by then a citizen of Israel...
...Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the U.S.S.R. announce the great misfortune which has befallen our party and our people-the grave illness of Comrade J. V. Stalin. During the night of March 1 to 2, Comrade Stalin . . . had a hemorrhage . . . which affected vital parts of his brain. . . The Central Committee and the Council of Ministers express confidence that our party and the whole Soviet people will . . . display the greatest unity and cohesion, staunchness of spirit and vigilance...
...Ides of March, had to deal with-and to a degree respect-a tradition of freedom, almost absent in Russia. Napoleon I, who vainly tried to legitimize his rule with a papal anointing and a blue-blooded wife, suffered military disaster of a kind that has not yet befallen Soviet Russia. Russia's own Peter the Great, who sent his only son to death for disagreeing with his reforms and failed to pick another successor, bequeathed Russia a murderous struggle for power that lasted for a century; but he faced a nobility and a clergy that had never really...
...Central Committee of the Communist party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the USSR announce the great misfortune which has befallen our party, and our peoples the grave illness of Comrade J. V. Stalin...
...Communists choose to put a new army below the Yalu. it would risk the same fate that would have befallen the first. If the Communists want to contest the area between the waist and the Yalu with guerrilla activity, ROK troops, with U.S. air support, should be able to carry on the fight as long and as well as the Chinese...