Word: communists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists' worst humiliation came in West Harlem, where hulking Ben Davis, one of the convicted Communist leaders, was defending his seat on the city council. It was the only elective office in the U.S. held by a Communist, and the party poured its resources into the fight. Comrades sent sound trucks crisscrossing the district, harangued street-corner meetings nightly, and Candidate Davis shouted himself out of voice...
...Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed: "Serons! nous cocacolonisés? [Will we be Coca-Colonized...
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had thumped indefatigably, through eight weeks of U.N. meetings, for Moscow's version of "peace." His loudest bang, echoed by ing" noisy from whacks the at Western Communist "war-monger-propaganda machine around the world, was a proposal for a five-power non-aggression pact...
...students were fed up. "Tito's leaders claimed their only interest was fighting Germany," he says, "but it was quite apparent to many of us that they were aiming for complete political power at the end of the war. By the time we saw that our resistance movement was communist-led it was too late to change...
With Bajuk at Graz was 19-year-old Robert Grasselli '51, also from a small town in Slovinia, Yugoslavia, Grasselli was too young to be actively engaged in the war, but his parents were in business and, when the communist regime was established in 1945, all business went to the state...