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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian consulates throughout the Middle East had opened their doors to Armenian refugees, promised them homes near Erivan, capital of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Workers, poor students, intellectuals responded quickly: by the end of 1945, 20,000 had applied in Iran, 35,000 in Syria and Lebanon, thousands more in Greece, Egypt and Palestine...
This "peaceful" position won the Communists considerable support among a people heartily sick of war. On the other hand, the Communists had lost some strength in liberal and intellectual groups which formerly made a sharp distinction between Chinese Reds and Russian Reds. In bone-poor Yenan the Communist record had been one of progressive reform. But from Shantung and other recently occupied areas, Chinese liberals heard and many believed verifiable tales that were remarkably like the stories of Red oppression in eastern Europe. But this loss of prestige among intellectuals was much less important to the Communists than retention...
...were no schools at all for 14,000 out of 20,000 school-age Navajos. But the nomadic Navajos were also at fault: they took their children with them to tend sheep flocks. To round up students from a 50-mile radius, the day schools depended on buses. But poor roads, flash floods and wartime breakdowns held up the buses. Of 50 schools, 20 were closed during World War II. Chee says: "The schools tasted good. We want more...
...remoteness. Nine miles from the mainland, it has only one link with the world: a ferry which makes the trip twice daily. Nowhere is there a radio, a telephone or a newspaper; the Island's ancient Oceanic Hotel, built in 1873 by mustard tycoon John R. Poor (a Unitarian), has no running water, no baths. Said Congregationalist "Shoaler" Donald A. Adams: "You have nothing else to think about except religion...
Spies, with associates at San Juan's School of Tropical Medicine, thinks that the efficacy of folic acid also proves decisively that sprue (symptoms: diarrhea, mouth sores, lassitude) is a result of poor diet rather than a contagious disease, as some doctors have insisted. Folic acid, Spies announced earlier this year in the A.M.A. Journal, is also a remedy for all but a few rare kinds of anemia, causing red blood cells to pour into the blood in striking numbers...