Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empire. Last week an Emergency Commission of the International Rescue Committee, having completed a two-month study in Western Europe, reported that 1,158 refugees went back to their Red homelands in the 13 months ending Jan. 31, 1956. During the same period about 6,000 non-German Europeans fled Communism by slipping through the Iron Curtain to the West. Among the reasons for redefection, according to IRC: Communist propaganda appeals and threats of reprisal against the refugees' families; the refugees' own nostalgia for their homelands, and failure to make a living in the West. Concluded General William...
Dutch Lawyer Herman Bouman, who opened for the defense, was accused of being a criminal accomplice in the case he was defending. After police badgered him and searched his home, he fled to Holland, leaving his wife Mieke behind. The Indonesians announced that Bouman's flight proved his guilt, and the prosecution pointed an implicating finger at Bouman's wife "since especially in Western society, it is not possible that a man goes abroad without his wife knowing...
...English child in Hampton Court, Malenkov, with hundreds of children to pick from, unhappily seized on six-year-old Thomas Klouda and his brother Peter, aged three, and plunked them on his knees. The boys happened to be the sons of former Czechoslovakian Consul-General Antonin Klouda, who fled Prague after the Communist coup. "Frankly, my first thought," said father Klouda, "was how easy it would be to assassinate...
...superior food bakes an indirect but most valuable contribution: the dining hall is not a place to be fled as soon as the worm is pacified, with the result that tutors, resident and otherwise, are usually present and usually sit in on lengthy conversations with members of the House...
...which wiped out Austria's one solid block of resistance against Naziism in a raid on the Socialist Party in Vienna in 1934; of a heart attack; in Schruns, Austria. Scion of an ancient Austrian family, Von Starhemberg backed the wrong Fascist, worked with Mussolini against the Anschluss, fled when Hitler took over in 1938, saw his 13 castles, hundreds of dwellings, mines, vineyards, 21,000 acres of land confiscated by the Nazis. He popped up in the Free French forces in 1940, spent most of the war in South America with his family. In 1953 charges of high...