Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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AFTER VISITING REFUGEE AND CHILDREN'S CAMPS, TALKING WITH PRISONERS OF WAR, AM ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED GUERRILLA ARMIES COMPOSED OF DIEHARD COMMUNISTS AND CRIMINAL AND LAWLESS ELEMENTS INTENT ON DESTROYING EVERYTHING GREEK WHILE THEY PILLAGE, RAPE AND PLUNDER. PATRIOTS OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT LEFT GUERRILLAS WHEN GREECE WAS LIBERATED, AND COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, FOR THEY KNOW COMMUNIST AIM IS TO DESTROY GREECE, MAKE HER A COMMUNIST SATELLITE BY ESTABLISHING RUSSIAN DOMINATION OF MEDITERRANEAN...
Last week the State Department peremptorily called a halt. It ruled that the visas of 17 Iron Curtainers were no longer valid, ordered the men to leave the country as soon as possible. Before they left, the visitors got a quick look around, and did a little shopping. One night Composer Shostakovich slipped quietly into a balcony seat at a Manhattan concert to hear the forbidden "formalist" music of Hungary's late Bela Bartok...
...spent the next day and a half in casual puttering at home. Then, on Sunday afternoon, he announced that he was going on a business trip to Buffalo; he left at 4:30, caught a ferry to Manhattan, and vanished into the stone maze of the big city...
...again in what he called his "motherland." At Boston Garden, under the merciless lights required by the soth Century triumph of television, he reiterated his warnings and expressed new hope. From a vantage point no other man can claim to occupy, he reviewed the half-century on which he left his giant's imprint. He called it "this terrible soth Century...
James Zellerbach, 57, a slight, balding Pacific Coast paper & pulp man (Crown Zellerbach), had bustled into Italy nine months ago, an'EGA chief brimming with vim, vigor and the proverbial vitality of American business. Left-wing Italian newsmen heckled and flustered him. Government ministers, explaining land redistribution, stared when he cut them short with "I'm not interested in politics. I want facts. It's strictly a business proposition." Washington heard that Zellerbach had antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans...