Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hanged (as a special degradation), in Moscow, after a four-day Soviet show trial highlighted by fantastic confessions of murder, pillage and espionage (most of it true): Ataman Grigori Semenov, 56, last of the Soviet Government's great civil war enemies. Semenov, who since 1918 has harassed Bolsheviks in Siberia, Mongolia and Manchuria, was captured when the Russians overran Manchuria last fall...
While the peacemakers dickered, China's civil war raged on. Both sides announced important gains. The Nationalists claimed the capture of Chengteh, capital of mountainous, strategic Jehol province. The Communists claimed the capture of the railroad junction of Tatung, near China's Great Wall, after a four weeks' siege...
...world tormented almost to indifference by the international welter of civil strife, rioting, pillage, expropriation, the collapse of social and political tradition and the failure of the nations' leaders to achieve peace found one fact indisputable last week: in Yugoslavia Marshal Josip Broz Tito's war planes had shot down two unarmed U.S. transports (one in flames) and killed four American citizens...
Tito ordered his planes "not to fire on foreign planes, civil or military," released the interned crew and passengers before the U.S. demand was formally delivered, said he considered the U.S. ultimatum no longer "applicable." He promised to rebury the Americans, with highest military honors, in Belgrade's American Military Cemetery (among the graves of some 80 other American airmen who helped Tito during the war), but Secretary of State Byrnes ordered their reburial...
...with a Future. A graduate of the Komsomol (Young Communist League) and of the diplomatic school, the Soviet P.R.O. has been around more than most Russian civil servants, but never to the U.S. During the Battle of Britain he was third secretary (later first counselor) in the embassy at London. Two and a half years ago he was recalled to Moscow, promoted to his present job, which included censorship until the post office took it over six months ago. It is a post for men with a future. Apollon Alexandrovich Petrov, one of his predecessors, is now Ambassador to China...