Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also heard an important unofficial suggestion this week: to restore the freedom and independence of Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. It came from members of the International Peasant Union, including former Hungarian Premier Ferenc Nagy, Bulgarian Opposition Leader Georgi M. Dimitroff, Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek...
...Joint Commission, said that if U.S. forces would withdraw from their zone at the beginning of 1948, "then the Soviet troops will be ready to leave Korea simultaneously." Translated from the Russian, this was another way of saying: Let us both leave the lamb to the butcher. Cried Moderate Leader Kim Kyh Sik, chairman of the Korean Interim Legislative Assembly: if the U.S. withdrew, "North Koreans would sweep down like red lava, cover South Korea and end Korea's existence." The U.S. Government, which last fortnight asked the U.N. General Assembly to help end the Korean stalemate, thought...
...strangest fugitives were the Ukrainians. For international purposes, such as gatherings of the U.N., the Soviet Union treats the Ukrainian republic ts an independent state. But some Ukrainians have been trying to throw off the Soviet yoke since 1918. A group of Ukrainian partisans under a 25-year-old leader named Lakhidnya had fought their way to the U.S. zone last summer. Since then, they have been filtering through in small detachments. They cannot be classed as D.P.s. So the somewhat baffled U.S. military authorities have interned them in a barracks in Bavaria...
...Yugoslavia, the Communist dictatorship silenced opposition by first discrediting, then executing General Draja Mihailovich. In Hungary, they jailed the Secretary General of the majority Smallholders Party, Bela Kovacs (reported dead last week), and forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept. 22). In Albania, they fabricated an Anglo-American-inspired treason plot to justify death sentences for 16 opponents...
...army till 1946, Hal served most of his time with the First Infantry Division of the Regular Army, a job which carried him into North Africa as the platoon leader in a machine gun company. After receiving and recovering from, an injury in Tunisia, Kopp was sent back to the states to serve as R.O.T.C. Commandant at the University of Connecticut...