Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German capital and its people last week came the most violent and perhaps the most fateful days since Red armies three years ago blasted their way across the Tiergarten, littered with uniformed corpses. After watching the Berlin scene last week, TIME'S Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled...
...Chief other allocations: Britain, $1,263,000,000; France $989,000,000; Italy...
...Hate & Follow. She did not attain her power as Lupescu did, nor in the way the suffragettes dreamed of in Ana's youth. She came up through 30 fighting years in the Communist Party, to which she contributed great courage and a good, if not brilliant mind. Her chief offering, however, was a blind loyalty which stood every test, including the party's purge of her husband...
...recent weeks, Communist big shots have toppled into jail like so many drunks on Saturday night; Ana has had to transform two theaters into prisons. Among those arrested: beautiful Florica Bagdasar, Minister of Public Health; General Michael Lascar of Pauker's own Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member of the Communist Central Committee, and Pauker's old comrade. Said she: "Doncea fell into petty bourgeois habits ... I advise all Communists not to sleep on their glory, and take heed from this...
After 20 years as a civil servant, two years as Under Secretary for External Affairs, Pearson was getting into politics. He took up his new cabinet post with a sense of mission. In his view, the chief hope of easing the continuing international tension lies in an Atlantic defensive union linking North America with Europe's Western Union. In Washington, U.S. and Canadian diplomats were already working on the problem. Pearson was sure that he had something to contribute...