Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emirate. When the Turks sided with Germany in World War I, Abdullah and his father and brothers joined the British, led their followers in the Arab Revolt. Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"), chief British agent among the Arabs, thought Abdullah "too clever" and unpredictable to be the Arab leader of the rebellion, picked his brother Feisal instead...
...killed in election disorders. Nor did the Communist boycott significantly diminish the total vote; 92% of South Korea's eight million registered voters cast ballots. But in one forecast, pre-election dopesters were proved right. Tenacious, septuagenarian Syngman Rhee was confirmed as Korea's No. 1 political leader and its probable new chief of state...
...Resisters. When De Pontillac prepares his bullies to search for "their load of Jewish meat," posters of protest, mute and futile gestures though they are, appear on the city's walls. They are the work of Marc Laverne, leader of an anti-Stalinist leftist group, a man so imbued with revolutionary fatalism that he seems like a disembodied symbol of rebellion. More human than Laverne is Ivan Stepanoff, an Old Bolshevik who has miraculously escaped from Stalin's prisons and who feels himself increasingly a historical anachronism. When Stepanoff is arrested, "his first concrete thought [takes] the form...
Four Harvard professors have joined a list of over 300 civic, educational, religious, and labor leader protesting the showing of the motion picture "The Iron Curtain," as increasing "the atmosphere of hysteria leading...
Died. U Saw, 47, dapper, wily onetime Premier of Burma (1940-41); by execution (hanging); in Insein, Burma. A leader of the independence movement, he was interned by the British in 1942 for collaboration with the Japanese. Freed in 1946, he lost out to Premier Aung San in the postwar political roughhouse, retaliated last July with an attempted coup and Aung San's assassination...