Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern Greece, Communist General Markos continued his stubborn defense of his Mount Grammos stronghold, which six government divisions were attacking. Markos' men cut off part of a convoy and burned alive 16 wounded soldiers caught in it. Then he broadcast a "peace offer"-which Athens, deeming it a fake, rejected...
...fair and high-cheek-boned. Nonetheless, when heavyset, dark, round-faced Resit Merdjan confessed to the crime, the court barreled the case through, carefully refrained from calling the eyewitnesses, and sentenced Merdjan to 25 years. Slight, fair, high-cheekboned Hashmet Orbay, son of the chief of Turkey's general staff, who had been with Merdjan when the murder weapon was bought, was dragged into the case by a slip up. The court sentenced him to one year as an accomplice. Cried Merdjan, when his sentence was read: "I was double-crossed...
Making his first official call on India's new Governor General Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov* addressed "Rajaji" as "Your Excellency." When the Governor General expressed surprise at his use of the title, Novikov explained:"We dropped the custom after the Revolution, but later felt that it had been a mistake."† "What?" Rajaji inquired sweetly. "The Revolution...
...York last week, just before his departure homeward (see PEOPLE), Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko was the victim of another thrust. Chatting with Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace and Canada's U.N. Delegate General A. G. L. McNaughton, Gromyko confided that he hadn't been able to get a decent apple since he arrived in the U.S. Agricultural Expert Wallace asked General McNaughton to suggest a couple of first rate Canadian varieties for the Russian. "Well," McNaughton drawled, "we have Mclntosh Reds-also the Northern...
...Nikolai V. Novikov. † Having restored the use of titles in all the branches of government service, Moscow reverted to another good old czarist custom last week by instituting "special forms of clothing," rank insignia and personal titles for officers of financial and banking institutions. Top rank: General State Counselor of Financial Service...