Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortunately Halla was never caught with a copy of TIME or his clandestine newspaper. Several of his friends (there were 15 editors in all) have since been arrested and the paper, he fears, was forced to suspend. He feels sure, however, that TIME articles found their way into other illegal leaflets and publications, not only in Czechoslovakia but in many other Communist-dominated countries. "The oppressed people of all Europe are looking up to your magazine," he said. "I know because I was one of them...
...some gloomy conclusions about Europe's future. War within three years, said Halla-and Russia would have "little difficulty" in overrunning Europe. But he felt certain that Russia would not win. He compared Russia with Germany on the eve of World War II and predicted: "Peace will never be gained with the Communists by peace methods...
...others: Nazi Propagandists Douglas Chandler and Robert Best; Army Deserter Martin James Monti, who became a Nazi Storm Trooper; U.S.-born Tomoya ("the Meatball") Kawakita, wartime interpreter in a Japanese prison camp; Mildred Elizabeth ("Axis Sally") Gillars. Indicted but never brought to trial: prizewinning Poet Ezra Pound, now in a Washington insane asylum...
...Carolina. In Madrid, Congressman Murphy took his wife to a bullfight. Just as the matador was about to dedicate his fourth bull to Mrs. Murphy, the heavens opened and torrential rain fell, the bullfight was called off, and Mrs. Murphy's brand-new black Spanish mantilla was ruined. "Never mind, dear," said Congressman Murphy, "we will be back next year and we will see another from the United States ambassador's box." (The U.S., Britain and France have signified their disapproval of the Franco regime by withdrawing ambassadors from Madrid...
Churchill made cruel fun of Cripps for declaring so frequently that he would never devalue, then being forced into the horrid step "higgledy-piggledy." He said the Chancellor had "[turned] completely round like a squirrel in his cage." Churchill twirled his stubby forefinger to indicate the. squirrel's acrobatics, as the packed benches rocked with laughter...