Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often our own Government . . . seems to have so far lost faith in our system of free opportunity as to encourage this Communist advance, not hinder it ... Communists and fellow travelers [have] risen to positions of trust in our Government ... On that very day when a poor distraught schoolteacher ventured death to jump to freedom . . . the head of our own Government called the exposure of Communists in our Government 'a red herring...
...Paris, the nations listened to the earnest, urgent words of Count Folke Bernadotte. The U.N. General-Assembly considered his proposals for a Palestine settlement which he had completed just before his death. Both George Marshall and Ernie Bevin backed the plan; it seemed certain that the Assembly would adopt it. Both Jews and Arabs objected, but they sounded more moderate than usual...
...Hecht, who from a safe distance has long and loudly egged on Jewish terrorists, also made a statement. Said he: "[Bernadotte] was an ass not worthy of so fine a death...
...milled about the plaza cheering Perón, who finally appeared on a balcony of the Casa Rosada in company with wife Eva and Minister of Interior Angel C. Borlenghi. Perón plunged into a half-screaming account of the "conspiracy." "Traitors to the country" had plotted his death, he shouted, because "international capitalists desire...
...sentence. He described her as depraved and a Nazi sadist. Because of the limitations of time only a small part of the evidence against her was presented at the trial. No mention was made of her sexual depravity which could be described only as maniacal. She escaped the death penalty because she conceived an illegitimate child during her internment. She is an incredibly amoral woman...