Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned (with Finnish pancakes, photographs depicting the Russian rape). So did Norway, Czechoslovakia, Sweden (with exhibits financed by their nationals in the U. S.). France, Great Britain altered some of their displays, turning them into restrained propaganda for U. S. sympathy. Belgium opened its impressive building on schedule. But Commissar General Joseph Gevaert postponed his speech, said he preferred to wait until fighting words are in order...
...other people, learned much from the way the Red Army performed in Finland. Last week the Dictator, slow, methodical and unforgetting, began to apply his knowledge. Paramount lesson of the Finnish campaign was that the Communist system of attaching to each Red Army officer a political commissar with overriding authority is unpractical. It implies that the officer is not fully trustworthy, undermines his authority with the troops, paralyzes quick decision and active leadership in the field. At the Dictator's order last week Red Star, newsorgan of the Red Army, announced that Soviet officers have now been given "full...
...Article III provides for consultation and exchange of information on matters of mutual interest. The inference was that Russia invoked the pact after the German invasion of Norway, which German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg spent four hours explaining to Foreign Commissar Molotov in Moscow (TIME, April...
...Reich, thereby approaching slightly nearer his Mein Kampf dream of a Nazi Empire of 250,000,000. Declaring that through its resistance to "protection" the Norwegian Government had affiliated itself with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter of Essen, publisher of Field Marshal Hermann Goring's Essener National-Zeitung...
...Inviolability of the human person," are those who would destroy this inviolability at the first opportunity, and they must be dealt with by special measures. Thank God we have a Dies committee to disclose and put to an end the Trojan Horse methods of Communists, as advocated by Commissar Dimitroff...