Word: brest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Bolsheviks signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the peace treaty with the Germans in 1918, Steinberg said he and his fellow Socialist Revolutionaries determined to resign from the government...
George K. Arthur (real name: Arthur G. Brest), dapper, London-born producer of Martin and The Stranger, is an oldtimer in films. He and the late Karl Dane were a popular brain 11. brawn Hollywood comedy team during the silent '205 (The Rookie, All at Sea). His acting career nipped by the transition to sound, Arthur turned promoter, ran a one-man advertising agency...
...from 30 pupils to 45 or 50. Over the next four years, the enrollment is likely to jump another 25%. Yet the government has not only failed to provide for this expansion; it has also failed to provide funds for repairs. The bombed-out municipal lycée in Brest, for instance, has never ' been rebuilt. The law faculty of the Sorbonne has had to expand into a building usually used for boxing bouts. Meanwhile, the Sorbonne's laboratories are hopelessly short of equipment: instead of the precise metal weights needed for experiments, students must make do with...
Text by Lenin. Where Communists are concerned, it is sometimes instructive to listen to what they themselves say. Last week the Taegliche Rundschau, official organ of the Red army in Eastern Germany, recalled how Lenin had made peace with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk to give the Soviet land "a breathing space . . . to give it the chance of putting the economy in order, to take advantage of disputes within the imperialist camp...
...Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These are my credentials...