Word: freedoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago after a year spent as a D.P. in Germany, where he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army while waiting for his chance to come here. When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, Halla was a student at Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University, from which he was promptly expelled for demonstrating with other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached the border-a procedure that permitted effective censorship of democratic...
About that time, he began working for an underground paper, For Freedom, which was distributed to 2,500 Czechs three or four times a week, depending on the availability of newsprint and a printing plant. Halla wrote articles, many of them based on "Voice of America" broadcasts which the editors were able to get despite Russian jamming; he also translated the news in TIME. "It was one magazine that was still free, democratic," he said...
...Sunday Congressman Keogh of New York and Congressman Poage of Texas announced: "We want to find out for ourselves about freedom of religion in Spain." They attended services at a Protestant church; a third visitor went to a synagogue; a fourth went to Catholic Mass. "What was your impression?" inquired suave Merry del Val. Replied the Congressmen: "We are going to have a talk with certain correspondents back in Washington." They obviously referred to correspondents who, they thought, had exaggerated religious suppression in Spain...
Today's CRIMSON may be sealed in a "Freedom Capsule" under a 100 foot flagpole in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The Freedom Foundation will pick 100 dailies for this distinction of immortality...
Professor Herbert Dieckmann, head of Washington's Romance Languages department, calls it "a clear violation of academic freedom...