Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"We must learn to put more of this last ingredient to work in the right places and in the right ways. We must, above all, avoid the kind of mistake which in 1944 and 1945 led us to throw away enormous assets of democratic good will in liberated Europe. We...
He got to Berlin, via Amsterdam, with a passport bought from an American sailor. For six months he managed to send a steady stream of dispatches to the Chronicle before the Germans identified and arrested him. After narrowly escaping execution as a spy, Pyke made a bold daylight escape from...
¶ In Athens, press officers of the U.S. Embassy and the American Mission for Aid denied correspondents' charges that Greece had no free press. "There is as real a freedom of the press in Greece today," said the official statement, "as there is in the U.S." It was an...
Jews blamed anti-Semitic members of the British forces for the outrage. They drove off British police who tried to help rescue the wounded. Then, in a series of reprisal attacks, they killed nine British soldiers, wounded at least as many. Jerusalem was all but paralyzed as armed bands of...
Deborah Kerr makes an entirely credible sister, devoid of the sentimentality that usually befouls religious characters in the movies. David Farrar and Flora Robson play with skill and vitality, while Jean Simmons, the Estella of "Great Expectations," is magnificent as a sensuous Indian girl. Technicolor is made the most of...