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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German authorities reported that they had been arrested by Czech police for illegally crossing the border, and were being held in jail behind the Iron Curtain. U.S. officials were refused the right to visit them. The U.S. embassy at Prague protested repeatedly, and its protests were either ignored or evaded. Three months went by before the Czech government made a terse announcement: Hill and Jones were being held for espionage. Last week the Czechs broke their silence again with an even more chilling report. The pair had been secretly tried as spies, had been sentenced to long terms at hard...
...case of Molotov's replacement by Vishinsky as Foreign Minister, it seemed extremely unlikely that Bulganin's "relief from duty" was a demotion. Like Molotov, Bulganin remained a member of the all-powerful Politburo. It was possible that he had been moved up, either to an inner advisory group on the Politburo, or to the Central Committee's Military Department, the Communist Party's hidden organ which controls the Ministry of Armed Forces. One trend was clear: all but one (Minister of Light Industry A. N. Kosygin) of the Politburo's 13 members have been...
...murals, for which he is most famed, are often as vast as novels, while the paintings of most of his contemporaries are short stories at best. Among Rivera's own mural-painting countrymen, none can match either his native drive or his European-trained virtuosity...
...with a "strategic situation in regard to London." Through history, Battle Hill has witnessed massacres without number-"mornings and evenings of hardly human sport." Now, "from other periods of its time other creatures could crawl out of death, and invisibly contemplate [the living], awaiting the hour when they should either retire to their own mists or more fully invade the place of the living...
Students remaining in Cambridge during vacation can take their meals at the Union, either paying with coupons or signing for regular board rates. All House dining halls will close after dinner today, with Adams and Lowell reopening for breakfast Sunday, April 10. The other Houses will open for usual meals on Monday morning, April...