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Word: irc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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While angry words reverberated through the tense refugee communities, IRC commissioned one of its directors, Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, to gather a new committee and investigate the growing problem of redefection (TIME, April 9). One good starting question: How can five Russian sailors be bulldozed by Russian agents in the middle of the largest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Five Who Left | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...Western Europe, reported that 1,158 refugees went back to their Red homelands in the 13 months ending Jan. 31, 1956. During the same period about 6,000 non-German Europeans fled Communism by slipping through the Iron Curtain to the West. Among the reasons for redefection, according to IRC: Communist propaganda appeals and threats of reprisal against the refugees' families; the refugees' own nostalgia for their homelands, and failure to make a living in the West. Concluded General William Donovan, wartime chief of the Office of Strategic Service and head of the Emergency Commission: "Each return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 1,158 Went Back | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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