Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Clark was still studying the Communist note, the Chinese made a second and far more important proposal. In a Peking radio broadcast, Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, who had recently returned from Moscow, abandoned Chinese insistence upon forced repatriation of all P.W.s, the issue which caused the breakdown of the Panmunjom talks. Admitting that there are some Chinese who don't want to go home-"captured personnel of our side who, under the intimidation and oppression of the opposite side, are filled with apprehension"-Chou suggested that prisoners who reject repatriation be handed over to a neutral state. Four...
...Soviet radio last week broadcast news of a "general amnesty" for perhaps hundreds of thousands locked inside Russian prisons. It was the third such decree to be proclaimed in the 35 years the Communists have been in power.* Like most decrees from the Kremlin, this was a carefully contrived pudding of prose which would have to be tasted for awhile before it could be judged. It called for immediate release of 1) those serving prison sentences of less than five years for crimes of "no great danger to the state," and 2) all pregnant women, women with children under...
...rejecting U.S., French and British protests over the downing of an unarmed British bomber and the death of its crew of seven (see below). Foreign Minister Molotov indicated that he might be willing to release nine Britons and one Irish missionary seized in Korea. Moscow Radio (in a broadcast in English only) conceded for the first time in years that Great Britain and the U.S. had also helped win World...
Mathematics Teacher. Senator McCarthy's committee was investigating the Voice of America, but among its witnesses was Czech-born Julius H. Hlavaty, the present chairman of the mathematics department at the Bronx High School of Science. Dr. Hlavaty was testifying because he had delivered a broadcast for the Voice in 1949. At that time, said he, he was not a Communist, nor is he one today. But was he one in 1948? And had he tried to recruit students to the party in that year? Teacher Hlavaty refused to answer...
When the death was finally broadcast on Radio Moscow, U.P. got a call a few minutes later from its Moscow correspondent, Henry Shapiro. By long distance he asked "Have you heard the news" before he was cut off. Half an hour later he got through once more, and had dictated part of his story before he was cut off again, thus permitting U.P. to put out a Moscow-datelined story hours before the A.P.'s Eddy Gilmore and Tom Whitney got through to London and Paris...