Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People's Government for the Northeast" (i.e., Manchuria), proclaimed by a "People's Congress" in Mukden. Its chairman is one Kao Kang, 47, who is also secretary of the Communist Northeast Bureau...
...million kitty, Kennan argued, would permit a start on the only dynamic policy now proposed from any source-a systematic interference with Communist organization of East Asia. Obviously, it would need privacy and finesse in application, which the discretionary feature of the Republican amendment would make possible...
Kick from Behind. Osaka's Communists tried but failed to make capital of the "rationalization" firings, thanks largely to the vigilance of the city's hefty, even-tempered police chief, 49-year-old Eiji Suzuki. Chief Suzuki started his regime by cleaning up Osaka's formidable gangs of thugs and black-marketeers. When the Communists began making trouble, he went after them with equal vigor. Last July, when a Communist-published kabe shimbun (wall newspaper) published stories charging G.I.s with attacking Japanese women, Suzuki saw his chance. Under an Army directive forbidding falsification of news about...
...same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents...
Grey Bread. The other two had a separate job. "Tiger," who had been a German Communist, had the job of spreading disaffection in Mannheim. "Paluka," a Ukranian who had joined the Free French, was to be Tiger's radio man. All three were flown over the lines. Then they jumped, buried their parachutes, established their" directions, threw away their compasses and started walking...