Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall pine trees that shade the Soviet Headquarters. When I sat down in Heinz Depper's compartment, he was looking at a big Red banner strung across a main street. The sign said: "Vote 'Ja' for democracy." It was part of a propaganda campaign for the Communist People's Congress "elections" this week...
Last week, Private Papageorgiou's heart was high, his spirits soaring. The Greek army was slowly beating back the Communist guerrillas who, more than once, had been close to engulfing the whole country. Georgios and 200,000 Greek soldiers like him had accomplished this feat with the help of a soldier from a foreign land with a heart every bit as stout as theirs. He was Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet, combat infantryman, sometime U.S. division and corps commander and now head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group (JUSMAPG) in Greece...
...floundering Greek army seemed to have bogged down in a defensive war, wasted men to garrison towns against Communist hit & run attacks. The government commanders needed to be shaken out of lethargy, timidity, bickering, and antiquated tactical ideas. By unrelenting pressure, Van Fleet has changed their ways...
Greece and stay out-forever." The Communist radio called him "Chief Butcher Van Fleet...
...seven Soviet intellectuals who journeyed to Manhattan last month for the Communist-inspired "peace conference" at the Waldorf-Astoria were safely home again. In Moscow's Literary Gazette, Russian Movie Director Sergei Gerasimov unpacked some of his impressions of the trip...