Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comrade Molotov, the Mayor of Broadway, was the kind of soldier who could make an officer jump up & down with rage and then pin a medal on him. There was hardly a dogface in the 9th Division who didn't know him or hadn't heard of him. Few knew that he got his mail addressed to Pvt. Karl C. Warner. None knew that his real name was Karl Petusky...
...were not opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...
...hope. He was promptly hailed by fellow travelers as the world's greatest writer. Then, in 1936, Gide and a party of friends were invited by the Soviet government to Russia. While thousands looked on, Gide stood in Moscow's Red Square with Stalin and Molotov (see cut), and delivered a funeral oration for Maxim Gorki. Almost overnight, Gide, the longtime champion of individualism, became the literary hero of a totalitarian state...
...grey dawn, the news spread rapidly. Before Moscow's huge notice boards, in trolleys and subways, people happily nudged each other and said: "Good, huh? Good!" Cried a young teacher: "There are many honest fellows in America who don't want war." An engineer told an American: "Molotov will get together with you folks yet, you just...
...spoke in lavender & top-hat terms of "démarches" and "settlements." It even seemed as though Moscow had toned down its radio attacks on the U.S. "They"-the dread pair of antagonists-were going to get together to talk out their differences, as if only the wrinkle in Molotov's forehead and the puff of George Marshall's lips had prevented complete agreement between the U.S. and Russia all these months. An anonymous Nanking man-in-the-street was more realistic: "Heng hao" (very good), said he. "Now will the price of rice go down...