Word: downes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in the General Assembly's Political Committee, Vishinsky again drummed away at his favorite theme-"Western Germany is about to be used as ... a springboard for a new aggression on the Soviet Union." When he had quieted down, the U.S.'s Warren Austin dramatically delivered the...
Konstantin Rokossovsky, who only the week before had been a marshal of the Red army and a Soviet citizen, settled down in Warsaw to his new job as Marshal of Poland and Minister of National Defense. In Paris, the journal La Croix mused: "What would our Communist papers say if...
Panic spread fast as news of the state of siege exploded over Bogota. Tanks rumbled into the plazas. Rifle-toting troopers turned Congressmen away from the Capitol. Rumors spread through Carrera Septima crowds that Liberal leaders had been assassinated. Panicky shopkeepers slammed down their iron shutters. People stampeded. One woman...
"Complete calm prevails throughout the country." Rural shooting stopped. Business perked up as merchants saw a chance to get the coffee crop to market after all. Many bogotanos went down the mountainsides to resort hotels for a holiday weekend.
From a balcony of the Presidential Palace the President smiled down on the "spontaneous" marchers. His bill to float the largest foreign loan in Cuba's history had already sailed through the Senate with a 37-9 majority, and needed only House approval, which would probably be voted this...