Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franks prizes the quality of clarity above all others a public servant may have. Early in 1947, he delivered at the London School of Economics a series of lectures on "Central Planning and Control in War and Peace," in which he described the ideal cabinet minister as having "clarity, precision in thought . . . Only a synoptic mind can at once master the mass of necessary detail and yet keep a sharp lookout for the essential." Whitehall gossips, who have long noted Franks's ambition, believe that this passage indicates that Franks feels himself well qualified to be Prime Minister. Certainly...
...week later he entered the hall of the Supreme Soviet (parliament) at Stalin's right hand. He was next-and last-seen on May Day, when the Soviet mighty assembled atop Lenin's tomb. Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov. But he was there only in the printed list; his cannonball head was nowhere visible in the official photos...
That was last May. Last week Laszlo Rajk (pronounced Royk) spoke again in calm and measured accents. What he said might have been a complete fabrication-but it made an interesting tale. For five hours, before the Hungarian People's Court which was trying him for subversion and espionage, he told a closely detailed story of 18 years of double life as a police informer, traitor, spy and conspirator planted in Hungary's Communist Party. He said that he had worked in succession for Dictator Horthy's police, Hitler's Gestapo, and U.S. Intelligence. This year...
After Rajk, Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, chief of staff of the Hungarian army, stepped to the courtroom microphone. As he talked, listeners recalled last May Day when General Palffy, resplendent in dress uniform and riding a white horse, reviewed his troops in Hero's Square. "Good morning, comrades," Palffy had shouted. A thousand voices answered "Good morning, Comrade General." Palffy had drawn his saber to salute the flag. The saber slipped out of his hand, clattered to the ground...
Adenauer would have to combat the big Social Democratic Party, led by rambunctious Kurt Schumacher and shrewd Carlo Schmid. He knew well what was ahead. After the hairline confirmation vote, a photographer asked him to smile. "Aber gern [Be glad to]," Adenauer replied, "for soon I may not have any more reason for smiling...