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...people in order to wring confessions out of them. Even little children
had been tortured, said Khrushchev, as tears streamed down his face. To
get confessions, Stalin had promised some victims a dacha (country
cottage), but "the only dacha they saw was underground."
Young Francis Noel-Baker, a Labor backbencher who speaks Greek and who acted as an intermediary in Field Marshal Sir John Harding's negotiations with Makarios, insisted stoutly that Makarios was "a sincere, patriotic, honest, moderate and very remarkable leader of his people. I am certain that one day, Archbishop Makarios will return as a hero to Cyprus. At that time, some British government will be only too ready to get the kind of agreement with him that I believe we could have got a couple of weeks...
...Question of Terror. Simultaneously in Cyprus and London, the British government issued a statement by Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Governor of Cyprus. Said Harding: "[I reached the] decision to order the archbishop's deportation in the light not only of his overt seditious activities, but also of a large volume of evidence indicating that the archbishop has himself been deeply implicated in the campaign of terrorism." Harding cited a recent "dastardly attempt" to sabotage a British plane carrying soldiers and their families. In substantiation of Harding's charge, British troops, searching the Makarios residence after the archbishop...
...importance in the Soviet world is indicated by the fact that she shares her promotion as an alternate to the Party Presidium with Red army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Pravda Editor Dmitry Shepilov (often rumored to be Molotov's eventual successor as Foreign Minister), aging Nikolai Shvernik, longtime trade unions boss, and two party leaders from the critical Virgin Land areas, where a massive effort is being made to boost agricultural production. The whole package bears the Khrushchev stamp...
...Kenya, there was no fiercer character in all the jungle than Dedan Kimathi, a scarred, stocky ex-clerk who had fought and jockeyed his way to the leadership of all the guerrillas. Not content with his popular title, "General Russia," Dedan capped his arrogance by calling himself Field Marshal Sir Dedan Kimathi and appointing a parliament of his own to preside over. The Nairobi government put a price of ?500 on his head...