Word: fled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele flashed from Hankow: "Each side believes that the other is on the brink of an internal breakdown, but each is dead wrong as far as the immediate future is concerned. .... The Government here is scarcely recognizable as the same crowd of officials who fled Nanking in confusion last fall...
...Storm Trooper, roared that "the courts" will deal with former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg because he "criminally" ordered a "fake plebiscite," later canceled on the demand of Hitler (TIME, March 21). "None of Schuschnigg's supporters died for their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly hundreds, probably thousands of former supporters of Kurt von Schuschnigg in the throng of 25,000, their cheers were not entirely without significance...
...First Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs. In the past twelve months Commissar Litvinoff has also suffered the execution or disappearance of nearly all the great figures of Soviet diplomacy, including the Soviet Union's chief expert on Near & Far East affairs, Leo Karakhan, and several Soviet diplomats have fled abroad to denounce Communism & Stalin. Moscow papers had just accused of "wrecking" Nikolai Krylenko, famed Soviet Prosecutor at the earlier purge trials, thus grooming him to be made the next star traitor. The press also announced the execution after star chamber trials last week of the Metropolitan of Gorki...
...subsequent years, Bishop Noli shuttled between the U. S. and the Balkans. For six months in 1924 he was premier of republican Albania. Then he was overthrown in a rebellion headed by Ahmed Zogu, today King Zog, and fled Albania. The husky bishop settled for a time in Vienna, then returned to Boston. There he was last week when the Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhije and Maxhide, sisters of King Zog, arrived on their U. S. tour (TIME...
...approval. "The bird must be right." In the future he would do greater things: he would build his own opera house, acquire wealth, lampoon the critics, devastate his enemies. But for the present he must evade the enemy. Quickly packing his most valuable possessions, he slipped quietly downstairs and fled from the City of Dresden...