Word: irc
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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...
...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...