Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When James Byrnes was U.S. Secretary of State (1945-47), one of the big international issues was the U.S. demand for a secret ballot in Eastern European countries occupied by the Red army. Byrnes had to carry the ball for a democratic safeguard against voter coercion which his own state had not adopted...
Slapped, Ellis Arnall sounded another warning. The drought in Southern and Eastern states, said the former governor of Georgia, will cause food prices to "skyrocket." His lips were hardly closed before bald Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan baldly contradicted him. Said Brannan: The drought will not drive food prices up; its most serious impact has not been on food crops...
...Mountain, In Plain. The struggle pits guerrillas of the out-of-power Liberal Party against the troops and military police of the Conservative government. On the map, the guerrillas hold a third of the country, but their third, the rolling, grassy eastern llanos, is thinly populated. In the llanos, 5,006 irregulars commonly ambush and cut down invading government troops and steal their arms. The guerrillas themselves are targets of futile bombing...
...much as did the generals. After the assassination attempt in 1944 (which Guderian still deplores as unsoldierly and un-Christian), only complete sycophants could hold their jobs. But there was one exception: Guderian. He was called back twice, once to rebuild the Panzer armies and set up the Eastern defenses, again to hold the biggest job of all: chief of the general staff...
...Macedonian peasant who had come to Constantinople for an education at 18, became emperor at 45 and ruled the Eastern Roman Empire for 38 years until his death in 565. The wife was a Syrian circus brat turned prostitute who had the good luck to please the future emperor...