Word: gestapoes
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...Before [Georgi] Dimitrov [of Bulgaria] stood up ... to make his courageous peroration [at the famed Reichstag fire trial], he knew of a secret arrangement between the GPU and the Gestapo that he would leave it a free...
...asked immigration to forget about it and let him become a permanent resident of Canada. Just then, former members of the French Resistance, now living in Montreal, spotted De Bernonville. They lost no time telling the authorities that as a Vichy collaborator he had betrayed French patriots to the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation...
...radio speech preceding the 1945 general elections, Churchill predicted that a Labor victory would result in a Socialist totalitarian state employing "some form of Gestapo...
...jets. This is to prepare him for a visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...
Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of the late Railroader Jay and oldest living dandy of American expatriates, was having a little trouble at 70 with his wartime hostess on the Riviera. She had hidden him for eight months while the Gestapo sniffed about, declared Mme. Anne Vilbert de Sairigné, and in gratitude her wealthy house guest had written her a handsome check. But when she tried to cash it she found he had stopped payment. So last week she sued for the amount: $400,000. Expatriate Frank avoided the press. A friend spoke for him, though not much...