Word: pawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prize. In the European power game Trieste was more than a pawn to be attached to Italy or Yugoslavia. It had long been an important link between central Europe and the Mediterranean. Now it lay at the southwestern end of Russia's new area of power, 1,700 miles across Europe from the northernmost end in Norway's Finnmark. Most of the 250,000 Triestinos think of themselves as Italian, but the Slav tide-Slovenes to the north, Croats to the east-washes into the city's suburbs. To the northeast lies D'Annunzio...
Nazi spies and an assortment of French and Danish patriots prowl, around with strange grins on their faces through exotic restaurants, pawn shops, gambling dens, and little French fishing towns, Hedy, at her lovliest, is the most mysterious character of all. But since Paul Henreld, a loyal Dutchman, falls in love with her, it's easy to guess how the luscious Lamarr ends...
These porcelain figures are chessmen from the U.S.S.R., where chess is the most popular indoor sport and chess pieces represent figures in the class struggle. The chained worker is a capitalist pawn. The sinister piece whose head is a grimacing skull is the capitalist king. The rugged collective farmer is a communist pawn. The aproned worker is a communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most...
...Liberia's elected rulers have sometimes acted on other principles. In 1930, a League of Nations Commission accused former (1928) Vice President Allen N. Yancey of conniving with other Liberian officials to pawn hundreds of native laborers into near-slavery. Tubman was Yancey's legal adviser...
...Real Adversary. Bolivia is a small and pathetic pawn; the real protagonist is Argentina. Revolution in Bolivia would have stirred hardly a ripple if it had been solely a Bolivian affair; the U.S. has recognized other juntas, other Fascistlike regimes in Latin America. Even now the issue is not simply that Argentina's authoritarian regime stands accused of sponsoring a similar regime in Bolivia. The issue is that these regimes endanger...