Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Righting the Wrongs. Reviewing the disaster, Hanoi newspapers confessed: "We have killed friends, struck comrades. The countryside was full of funeral altars and mourning widows wearing white turbans around their heads." Twelve thousand "falsely accused" peasants were freed; rehabilitated landlords were promised their land back. For some 15,000 men...
All France was shocked. President Coty rushed to the hospital to bow before Chekkal's body; the funeral oration was delivered by Secretary of State for Algerian Affairs Marcel Champeix. While the Cairo radio crowed of a victory and urged terrorists on to greater efforts, police scoured the squalid...
Leftists who get caught up in the Communist confession mills have a fair idea of what to expect these days. As long ago as 1940, Budapest-born Arthur Koestler in his novel Darkness at Noon explained something of the techniques used. Thus, when onetime Hungarian Cultural Attaché Paul Ignotus...
Died. Boatswain William H. Gowan, 72, 35-year Navyman who retired in 1942, one of the rare peacetime winners of the Medal of Honor, for "extraordinary heroism displayed by him during a conflagration [in a ship of the U.S. Navy] in Coquimbo, Chile, 20 January 1909"; of a heart attack...
In the decade that has passed since the British Raj withdrew from India, non-Communist Asia's biggest and most populous nation has been ruled by one party and one man-the Congress Party of Jawaharlal Nehru. Last week some 365 white-capped Congress Party M.P.s assembled in New...