Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, at a great show trial before the German Supreme Court in Leipzig, one of the key witnesses was Prussia's Minister President Hermann Göring (later Hitler's portly air marshal), who testified that the Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe, who acted like an idiot during the trial. was sentenced to death and executed. But Bulgarian Communist Codefendant Georgi Dimitrov-later to become Communist boss of Bulgaria and then fall from Stalin's favor for Titoism-and three other prominent Communists had to be freed for lack...
Errant Schoolboy. As the deadline approached, Indonesia's Communist Party abandoned its pro-Sukarno stance for the first time. Party Secretary D. N. Aidit called the anti-Chinese law "shoddy chauvinism, inspired by racial hatred and a desire for personal gain." Peking sent what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio called "as peremptory a diplomatic note" as Indonesia had ever received. Alarmed, Subandrio hustled off to the Red mainland to talk things over. He got the cold shoulder. Roused from his bed in the middle of the night to see Mao, he was lectured like an errant schoolboy. Complaining...
When the Indonesian army went right on supervising the removal of Chinese from villages, Communist Chinese Consul Ho An drove out to rural Tjibadak and made a speech comparing Indonesia's actions to Hitler's massacres. Ho then continued on tour through the countryside encouraging the Chinese to resist removal, reminding the Chinese what great support they had given "the thankless Indonesians" in their revolution, and promising Peking's support...
...that they were being followed by Castro's secret police and guessed that the game was lost. Only López Fresquet survived the shakeup, and he had already asked to be allowed to resign next month. To replace Ray, Castro for the first time named an open Communist, Osmani Cienfuegos, brother of missing Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who only a few weeks ago joined the Popular Socialist (Communist) Party. An obscure leftist navy captain named Roland Diaz Astarain got Pérez' post...
Guevara, a slim asthmatic who keeps a glass inhalator close at hand, becomes the country's economic commissar (while holding onto his auxiliary job as commander of Havana's Cabana Fortress). The son of an Argentine Communist mother, Guevara got his M.D. in Buenos Aires, then decided that "curing nations is more exciting than curing people." He turned up in Red-lining Guatemala of the early 1950s, where the man who was instructed to hire him as an inspector in the Agrarian Department remembers only that Che was identified as a "Communist from abroad." With this sinecure...