Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homecoming. In 1940, the Rumanian government exchanged her for a Rumanian nationalist politician whom the Russians had taken prisoner in Bessarabia. Ana went to Moscow, where she found that her husband Marcel had got himself into Trotzkyite trouble; he was shot (according to one version) in a telephone booth. Some say that Ana gave evidence against him. Without flinching over Marcel's fate, Ana became a member of the Comintern Executive. She was one of the signatories of the protocol "dissolving" the Third International. One day at a meeting she attracted the attention of Andrei Vishinsky for her brisk...
...turns out, who wrote Roosevelt's famous "quarantine" speech. He was the man who told Roosevelt that Mussolini and Hitler were actively intervening in Spain and that non-intervention was a farce. He is, in short, the embodiment of the modern American journalist-politician, the ideal New Dealer, the American equivalent of the glorified Bolshevik of Soviet literature...
...obvious to be interesting. It is vital to draw the parallel between this character and those who eventually reaped a murderous harvest for their countries after taking refuge within a liberal constitution . . . You must show him, and prove him, to be what he is-primarily an opportunistic politician who is giving aid and comfort to those who are pledged to destroy our system of government...
...made a rule," he says, "that no editorial should be longer than a lead pencil." His brevity sometimes results in editorials so cryptic that readers dub it the "daily puzzle page." Once a politician, after reading a Wallace editorial about himself, asked a staffer: "Is he for me or against me?" The reporter couldn...
Then Ben-Gurion dropped his matter-of-fact manner. The labor politician was replaced by the prophet. A dreamer's stare veiled his blue eyes. The room was small but his voice throbbed loudly, as if speaking to multitudes against the winds on Mount Carmel...