Word: bierut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banned from the election lists in ten districts, others had been imprisoned, 24 had been killed (TIME, Jan. 13). Mikolajczyk himself, though he was a Vice Premier of the Government, waited two and a half hours amidst a booing and jeering crowd to cast his vote. Provisional President Boleslaw Bierut and other Government members were whisked in & out of the same polling place by a phalanx of police...
...President of Poland's coalition Government, Communist Boleslaw Bierut claims to be "above politics." Last week, reported the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, the Polish President gave a delegation of opposition leaders from Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party a sample of this lofty impartiality, Communist style. "Change your, line. Change your tactics," he told the group "and there will be no struggle. If you don't go in with the coalition, tears will be your lot and you will be beaten. We will use all means in our power to break...
...years Li Lisan was filed away, like Josip Broz (now Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito) and Boleslaw Rutkowski (now Poland's President Bierut), in Moscow's human archives. But last week Li was back in the inner circles of the Yenan Government. Some thought they recognized his dynamic hand already in reports that Yenan was considering superseding the present loose union of local Communist governments with a strong central regime...
Polish President Boleslaw Bierut led his seven-man delegation (including no representative of Stanislaw Mikolajczk's Peasant Party) from their plane in Moscow, stepped to a microphone to say, "Long live the indestructible friendship of the Polish and Soviet peoples...
When our barns are full. Two and a half hours after the Bierut mission took off to return to Warsaw, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia arrived at Moscow's Central Airport. Resplendent in visored garrison cap with a gold MacArthurian band of "scrambled eggs," dress-blue tunic and breeches, polished black cavalry boots and white doeskin gloves, he too stepped to the airport microphone, said: "The peoples of Yugoslavia have seen that in the Soviet Union they have a most sincere friend and most reliable defender...