Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter from a Daily Worker correspondent, said Budenz, he was told that "Manuilsky was indignant at the American party for not criticizing American officials more severely." The result was French Red Jacques Duclos' now famous Paris article castigating Earl Browder, then chief of the U.S. Communist party. Browder, who still stands ready to testify for the defense, was the fall guy of the Communist policy shift dictated by Moscow...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes spent the past month touring Western Germany to size up the nature of the crisis the Washington conference must try to meet. His report...
...chief advocates of such a match met on a recent Saturday at a tea party at Godesberg, just down the trolley line from Bonn. The host was Christian Democrat Leader (and Bonn Delegate) Andreas Hermes, who later stated his views: "We Germans have been maneuvered apart . . . We can no longer watch silently and passively developments that would lead to further splitting of Germany." The guest of honor was 76-year-old, grey-haired former (1933-34) German ambassador to Moscow, Rudolf Nadolny, otherwise (and accurately) known as Germany's "Pink eminence...
...Chief of the Red quintet that will face Premier Ho's delegation is Chou Enlai, Mao's eloquent first lieutenant. Backing him up will be General Yeh Chien-ying, Communist army chief of staff and now mayor of Peiping. When he took office in February, Yeh told Peiping's municipal workers: "I often make mistakes and I welcome correction. But I would not welcome it chalked on the toilet wall." Other Red delegates: General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria; Lin Po-chu, chairman of the Communist Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border government; Li Weihan, Communist party whip...
...Rangoon Turf Club to instill public confidence, badly shaken by the sound of gunfire from the Insein front ten miles away. Last week racegoers gossiped hopefully of the current visit of P.V.O. General Bo La Yaung (his name means "Officer Moonshine") to the government's army chief, Bo Ne Win ("Officer Sunshine"), who rarely misses a Sunday at the track...