Word: emigration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians themselves not given air supply to the Bor force? The answer was not immediately forthcoming but Moscow did have something to say about the politics of the situation. The Warsaw rebels, said Pravda, had been "foully deceived by a group of adventurous and political speculators of London emigré governments...
...with Russia was a personal tragedy. Opposition Poles in Britain and the U.S.* have attacked him ever since he defied Polish tradition and signed a Polish-Russian pact in July 1941, followed it with a friendship declaration in December 1941. A patriot, liberal enough to be anathema to rightist emigrés, Sikorski has showed great political courage in trying to deal with Russia. For a time, he succeeded so well that Stalin once called him the only Polish leader with whom the Kremlin could deal. But pressure inside & outside his Government has confounded him. Emigrés in London...
...Emigré Boyer's victim is Schoolmarm Olivia de Havilland of Azusa* ("everything from A to Z in the U.S.A."). Against Boyer's liquid-eyed, strong-charm methods she never has a chance: they are married in a jiffy. Wised up by Dancer Goddard, Olivia holds her pretty head so high that her husband realizes he is in love with her. That's all the immigration authorities wanted to know. He gets...
Brentano's best-seller (8,000 copies) shows that even in exile the French have not forgotten sex; it is Emigrés de Luxe, a torrid tale of refugees in New York by Maurice Dekobra, worldly wise author of La Madonne des Sleepings...
...rare ability to produce writing which is both a genuine work of art and popular; and to embody a generation. For that reason Flotsam is a deeply moving story that makes painfully clear, to readers who have forgotten or never understood, the real meaning of the words exile, emigré, rejugee...