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Under Lee's imaginative command, the San Sonnim wrecked thousands of South Korean trucks and trains. When the Communist army rolled south in 1950, he emerged from the hills and was made Red commissar of South Chungchong province (around Taejon). He ordered mass executions of captured South Koreans...
...occupation boss, or "supreme commissar," Moscow appointed bald Vladimir Semenov, a personable or non-Vishinsky type of diplomat, until recently chief political adviser to Chuikov and Soviet ambassador to the East German puppet government. A polished veteran of diplomacy although he is only 50, Semenov once taught philosophy, Soviet-style. He speaks German and some English. Across the negotiating table he gives the impression of at least comprehending points of view other than...
...time, may be observed consuming its own entrails. Last week in East Germany, the hyena jaws were relishing a larger mouthful than usual: Franz Dahlem, No. 3 German Communist. Lorraine-born Comrade Dahlem, a Communist delegate to the German Reichstag from 1928 to 1932, was an International Brigade commissar in the Spanish Civil War. Interned by the French in 1939, he was turned over to the Gestapo three years later by the Vichy government and moved to a German concentration camp, from which he was liberated by the Red army...
Alias Mr. Brown. In May 1939, while still Premier, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar. Three-and-a-half months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Both sides solemnly swore to "refrain from every aggressive action"; the effect was that the Reich was free to attack the democracies while Russia grabbed half of Poland and the Baltic Republics: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Then Hitler invaded Russia. Talking before Allied diplomats, Stalin would speak to Molotov of "your treaty with Ribbentrop." Stalin startled Sir Stafford Cripps by offering to sack Molotov, if the British wished...
...thus freeload on the U.S. Those who cannot make good, in short, should get out-just as any grocer or garage owner may be forced out of business for inefficiency. In this gigantic educational program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture should be a teacher, but not a commissar...