Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Josip Tito added his authoritative opinion last week to those who think the Kremlin has a secret method of extracting confessions from its victims. In a speech to the Yugoslav army, Tito said that Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had been taken to Moscow after his arrest in June and trained to confess in his treason trial, held in Budapest last month. Said Tito: "They prepared that trial according to some method which they have. You saw that everything went as it should. I do not know how one gets people to try to accuse themselves...
...taken were considerably fewer than had been expected." The happy meeting consisted of the Atlantic Treaty nations' defense ministers or their representatives, collectively known as the Defense Committee. They had come to Washington to set up and set in motion the defense apparatus outlined by their colleagues, the foreign ministers, last month (TIME, Sept...
...Russian audience. They also discovered that there were three other similar pictures current, one of them Shkola Nenavisti (The School of Hate), which was about the Irish rebellion. They found, further, that all four films, although they had soundtracks in Russian, were simply described as "foreign films," without hint of origin. The prevalence of blond Teutonic types led to a search of Dr. Goebbels' files. It turned out that Die Letzte Runde and The School of Hate (in German, Mein Leben fü Irland) were Nazi war-hate films, and that they had had their premi...
...Prime Minister is up at dawn, uses three offices (in the Constituent Assembly building, at the Foreign Ministry, in his home), will stick to desk work all day, then go through a barrage of social engagements, including dinner, then stay up until the small hours dictating to stenographers and lying in his charpoy (Indian string bed) to scan a day's bundle of news clippings. He drives himself equally hard, and much more spectacularly, when he gets away from offices and desks...
Because it is far more to his taste than domestic politics or economics, Nehru has kept the foreign affairs portfolio in his own hands...