Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torture. Masked to protect relatives behind the Iron Curtain, a Roman Catholic priest testified that in early 1941 the Communist police arrested him and many other Lithuanians for failing to vote in a phony election. In the prison "the other inmates and I were subjected to brutish and utterly inhuman treatment . . . My head was slammed against the wall [until] I collapsed into unconsciousness. My jailers alternated torture and interrogation. All told, I was questioned 18 nights from 10 o'clock until 4 in the morning. During these periods I was always stripped naked and brutally beaten. [One stretch...
Refugees from Communist lands have slipped through the Iron Curtain in all manner of vehicles-in airplanes, in armored cars, even in circus wagons. Last week came word of an entire family from Red Czechoslovakia arriving in the U.S. zone of Austria buried deep within a load of lumber. The buried treasure included a baker from Susice, his son, his daughter-in-law and his two small grandchildren, aged two and four...
...mile dredged channel in the Orinoco, built (and paid for) by U.S. Steel to let ore ships reach the upriver iron mines, but destined to open southeast Venezuela to commerce...
...agree with its wording," he said. But now "the pact is a pledge which binds us to the U.S. To ask its denunciation is only a Communist slogan . . . What do the workers know about the military pact? What they say is only a line imported from behind the Iron Curtain, where there are ten million slave workers...
...Toward Communism behind the Iron Curtain, the Pope's policy has been "pastoral," i.e., he has tried to get along with the Communist regimes as long as they allow the Church to perform even a minimum of its functions, in order to spare the faithful persecutions and the prospect of martyrdom. There is also a "muscular"' faction in the Church-among its spokesmen are Cardinals Ottaviani, Canali and New York's Spellman-which believes that the Red regimes are slowly strangling Catholicism in Eastern Europe, and that it might be better to take a tough line, even...