Word: lootings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Russia was still picking through the bare bones for industrial loot. When Red Army men carted off machinery from the Mukden ice plant, the city's new Chinese mayor, Tung Wen-chi, protested to the Russian garrison commander, Major General Andrei Kovtun-Stankevich. A man of remarkable statements (see INTERNATIONAL), the Soviet officer blandly replied: "The Red Army is very powerful. I cannot stop them...
...Combat-happy Red Army occupation troops who, until recently, had terrified Germans with their merry rounds of loot and rape, were being replaced by more disciplined units from Russia...
...world wars have implied the inability of capitalism to keep peace on earth, have forfeited the good will of Europe's desperate men & women. The plundering Nazis, whose continental loot is all but impossible to reassign to its former owners, have prepared the socialization of Europe's economic wealth. "Millions of Europeans consider its nationalization or socialization a most natural and obvious measure. This is what is being done, as I am writing, with mines, factories, banks and insurance companies in France. It is a step in the direction of socialism." Like most of his school, Author Scott...
...rich tin mines and oil pools of The Netherlands East Indies had been prize loot for the Japanese. Dropping all such stolen property last month, the Japs took time to throw a sharp tack in the path of the former owners. On Java they granted independence to a "Republic of Indonesia." Its head: Dutch-educated Soekarno, 40, a longtime, long-winded nationalist orator...
...Republican candidate, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, had been a Democrat until the day before his nomination. Now, with the added blessings of the Liberal and Fusion Parties, grey-haired Judge Goldstein was belaboring Democrats right & left. Nightly he cried that "Tammany's tin-box boys" were fixing to loot the city. Mild-mannered Judge Goldstein had once been secretary to arch-Democrat Al Smith. He now had the backing of another Governor: Tom Dewey...