Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Begley (a U.N. observer who drove the Count's car) grappled with one of the men, the other looked into the car, recognized the Count, shoved his gun through the window and started shooting. The bullets went straight through the ribbons on Bernadotte's uniform. Said General Lundstrom, who sat beside him but escaped injury: "There was a considerable amount of blood on his clothes, mainly around his heart...
...away at school. Soon the whole family assembled. King Gustav heard of his nephew's death as he was returning from his summer vacation; the old King wept. In Paris, U.N. delegates heard the news as they were getting ready for this week's General Assembly...
...That Troublesome Zone." Count Folke Bernadotte's assassination reminded U.N. of its crucial weakness-inability to enforce its decisions or even to protect its emissaries. Secretary General Trygve Lie, looking weary after a hurried flight from Oslo, said angrily: "The murder reflects an unprecedented and intolerable lack of respect for the dignity and authority of the United Nations...
...Israel there was general fear that Bernadotte's murder would bring even more violence. Arabs were reported massing troops; Israeli forces took up battle positions. But in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, two days after the murder, life seemed normal. "We were more worried about Lord Moyne's assassination," said one Israeli. "But the world soon forgot it, and other incidents like it won our state...
Last week, after almost doubling its North Korean native army, the Russians made their offer again, this time even more magnanimously. From Moscow, just in time to impress the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, came the announcement that all Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Korea by Jan. 1, whether the U.S. followed suit or not. The action, said the Russians, was taken at the request of the "Supreme National Assembly of Korea" (the puppet government), which hoped that now "the U.S. would agree to withdrawal of its troops...