Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese diplomatic missions in Europe, Red China's suave Foreign Minister Chou En-lai had sent a circular urging them to switch their allegiance from the Nationalist to the Communist government before it was "too late." In the huge, yellowing embassy on the dignified Avenue George V in Paris, there was warm discussion over the teacups: Ambassador Tsien Tai favored accepting the Communist invitation...
...World War II, Field served briefly with the OSS as liaison officer between the U.S. and the Communist undergrounds in Western Europe. When peace came, Field turned up as a relief worker, handling Eastern European refugees for the Unitarian Service .Committee...
...Unitarians, nevertheless, dispensed with his services. What happened to Field after that is uncertain. In 1948 ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers testified that Noel Field had once headed a Communist "apparatus" in the State Department. Last month Hungary's ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was himself executed last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), said Field was a U.S. intelligence agent who had helped blackmail him into becoming "a servant of American imperialism...
...bring peace. Earlier this year, as the Greek army launched its summer offensive, Van Fleet had predicted that Greece's Red guerrillas would be wiped out before year's end (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week his prophecy was proved right. From a secret radio station in Communist Rumania, Greece's Communist guerrilla leaders announced that they had had enough. Military operations, said the radio, would cease forthwith, "to avoid total destruction of Greece...
...transition to socialism, the top U.S. Communist leaders (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) told the jury, it is always the middle class that uses force. But the Czech Communists were showing the world how the transition to socialism is really carried...