Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's Soviet zone were getting help against the Spitzels (informers). "Achtung, Potsdam!" boomed RIAS, U.S. Military Government's radio station in Berlin. "We warn against Knehl, of the Ministry of Interior, we warn against . . ." Twice a week, the station puts on a regular program identifying Communist spies. To grateful East zone Germans, the broadcasts meant that the U.S. cared enough to help them. Within two weeks, 200 people had risked writing RIAS to say thanks...
...retreating Greek Communist guerrillas, Yugoslavia has long been a refuge from which they could later sally forth, refreshed and rearmed. Since the Cominform's cold war against Tito began a year ago, this aid has diminished but it has not ceased altogether...
...Communist-led railway union said that it would fight the firings "to the end." Angry workmen loosened switches, cut wires and attempted train derailments. One rain-soaked night last week, Shimoyama's body, with one arm and both legs cut off, was found lying across the tracks in Tokyo's Adachi ward...
Horrified Japanese blamed Red agitation for inspiring the murder. Communist leaders backtracked, delayed strike and slowdown plans on all fronts. Sharp public indignation and the threat of a showdown with either SCAP or the government did not fit into the plans of dapper, greying Communist Strategist Sanzo Nozaka...
Democratic Discontent. Last week, in a remarkably frank interview, Nozaka revealed these plans to TIME Correspondent Sam Welles. Said the Communist leader: "We now oppose violent revolution. We can do much with very democratic and peaceful methods . . . We can use the people's discontent...