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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason I didn't see him again . . ." Johnson began. MacInnis objected, but Judge George B. Harris let Johnson continue. "The reason I didn't see him again was because at the national committee meeting at which Harry Bridges was introduced . . Jack Stachel [one of the eleven convicted U.S. Communist leaders] said to the meeting that in the future Harry Bridges would not be brought to committee meetings for security reasons . . ." i.e., so that he could continue his West Coast labor work unhampered by the Communist label...
...one point Crouch told of taking a trip with a Communist named Harvey. "Well," joked Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, "maybe it was Harry Bridges you were riding with. Stand up Harry-let him have a good look at you." Harry Bridges slouched amiably to his feet. "No," said Crouch, "he was heavier built...
...accompanied by his more-traveled crony, Chu Teh, commander in chief of the Chinese Communist armies, who had once studied at Moscow's Eastern Toilers' Institute. At Moscow's Yaroslav station, the two Chinese visitors got one of the most distinguished receptions ever rendered to any foreign heads of state. The Moscow garrison sent a picked column of troops. Three Politburo bigwigs were present-Deputy Premiers Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Georgy M. Malenkov, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin-along with Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky and his deputy Andrei A. Gromyko...
...vast standardization project had been formally approved. "Tripartite arrangements," said the announcement, "will insure that in time of necessity there will be no material or technical obstacles to full co-operation among the armed forces concerned." Successful standardization, in the framework of the North Atlantic pact, might prove one of the most momentous steps in Western military history...
...raucous counterfeit of yuletide gaiety, but there was little or nothing for shoppers to buy. At grey-market shops, a pound of chocolates cost a laborer's full week's wage. Berliners stared at the meager, overpriced goods in frustrated despair; women wept. "Dear God," muttered one Hausfrau who had been searching in vain for some coffee cups and plates to brighten her yuletide table, "another Communist Christmas...