Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They reached an areaway, separated from the consulate by an iron fence, just as three Russians burst out of the consulate's back door. As police scrambled over the fence, they could hear the injured woman moaning in Russian: "Leave me alone, leave me alone." Despite her pleas, and the shouted orders of the cops, the Russians picked her up, lugged her back into the consulate, with the police right behind them...
Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
Given the kind of progress he meant, Esperantists east of the iron curtain would be expected to chant in unison: "Vivu nia grandega ĉefo Stalin!" Ĉefo means leader; the rest is easy...
...London last week the Iron Curtain countries were losing some of their athletes. They had come to compete in the Olympic games and developed an appetite for freedom. Two swimmers from Hungary had already received permission from Britain's Home Office to remain in Britain. Said the Home Office: "Other athletes from Communist-dominated countries may want...
...Steinhardt. After three grueling years as ambassador in Moscow (through the Hitler-Stalin pact period and the Nazi invasion of Russia) he had three tense years in Ankara. As ambassador to Prague, he had just returned from leave in the U.S., where he underwent a serious operation, when the iron curtain was rung down on Czechoslovakia...