Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventy-five miles southwest of Moscow, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Walter Kerr talked with several guerrilla leaders. They told him that partisan warfare is literally to the death: the partisans take no prisoners, expect death themselves if captured. So impressed are the Germans that rewards of 10,000 rubles (about $1,900) are paid for captured guerrilla leaders, 5,000 each for their followers. Wrote Walter Kerr...
...Dead. The heaviest losers in the Battle of Russia were not those who lost their freedom or their homes, but the thousands who had to endure the German occupation. Last week a U.S. correspondent visited reoccupied towns and talked to survivors. What Walter Kerr saw, heard and radioed to the New York Herald Tribune made more gruesome reading than the terrible figures in the official Russian report on Nazi atrocities (TIME...
...people in the Latashino district, about 90 miles west of Moscow, Kerr wrote, at least 949 had been shot, hanged, burned or frozen to death. The melting snow would probably uncover more bodies. Of 6,000 homes, 4,700 had been destroyed or badly damaged. Fifty of 67 school buildings were burned...
...Going to Moscow was tweedy, handsome Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 59, Ambassador to China since 1938. An aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State...
...Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, Ambassador to China-Companion of St. Michael and St. George...