Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What then is Mr. Stalin's price, Mr. Ambassador ... for what you people call East-West coexistence...
...face. Blood has already been shed . . . Rumors are still being heard. At first these rumors were spread by Western persons . . . But we knew that the Red army cannot attack a Socialist country because that would mean the end of Socialism in the world . . . But today those in the East are also trying to intimidate us, disseminating rumors ... of this many and that many Soviet divisions in one place or another . . . We are afraid only of elemental upheavals, droughts and hail . . . [We are] prepared to defend our country against any enemy, no matter who he might...
...winter and a farm laborer in summer. In 1941 Stalin made an agreement with the Polish government in exile to permit Poles in Russian camps to join the Polish forces then being formed in Russia. Again in boxcars, Josepha and her son, following Anders' army to the Middle East, traveled to the Caspian Sea, across it in a cattle boat to Persia. Then a British transport took the Olechnys and other Polish refugees through the Persian Gulf, around Arabia and down to Mozambique. From there they went by train to a camp in Southern Rhodesia. Later they were sent...
When Japan launched the Greater East Asia War, Negishi, a skilled mechanic who had saved a little money, decided to go into business on his own. Soon, he owned six factories in Tokyo, making communications parts for the Japanese army. Negishi took off his overalls, moved with his wife and three children into a fine residential district. He invested some of his profits in miscellaneous real estate, including a pleasant country inn located in picturesque Chiba county, near Tokyo...
...last week the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick flew to the alien East for a brief look at his new outpost, the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000), and a visit with some old friends. Over mint juleps and charcoal-broiled beefsteaks at a party given by Nevada's Senator George Malone, Colonel McCormick casually dropped a nugget of news...