Word: communists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escape of Communist Kingpin Gerhart Eisler had made the U.S. Government hopping mad. Unable to lay hands on the little man who was snugly draped in the Iron Curtain, the U.S. Government last week did what it seemed to consider the next best thing: it staged a spectacular, two-day inspection of the Polish liner Batory, aboard which Eisler had stowed away. The announced purpose was to find out who had helped...
...hard to find the typewriter and had failed. But no matter-the Government had letters which had been written on the machine and expert witnesses would show that they corresponded to the typing on the documents. "You must decide," U.S. Attorney Murphy concluded, "whether he, Mr. Chambers, a former Communist and former espionage agent, is telling the truth. You must examine what motive he would have for lying. If you don't believe [him], we have no case under the federal perjury...
...mustached, kewpie-like face thrust aggressively forward, Gus Hall (real name Arno Gust Halberg), chairman of the Ohio Communist Party, sneered: "It sounds more like a kangaroo court than a court of the United States. I have heard more law and more constitutional law in kangaroo courts." Judge Medina ordered him to jail...
...said the Paris reports one minute. Next minute the word was: "Complete deadlock." The outcome of the Big Four talks at Paris was still uncertain (see below), but it remained probable that the Russians wanted a limited settlement in Europe. They wanted it not because they had stopped being Communists committed to world revolution, but because Communist progress in Europe had been checked while Communist progress in Asia was rolling right along...
...King Is Useless." A complicating factor is Leopold's Bavarian-born, 72-year-old mother, Elisabeth, widow of the revered Albert and heroine of World War I. She has a habit of popping up in Brussels to dedicate Communist art exhibits, and was recently listed as one of the sponsors of the Communist "peace" rally in Paris...