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Nevertheless, the shiploads exported since Jan. 1 were already twice the total for the whole of an average prewar year, the rate of shipment greater than any in all U.S. history. By July 1, U.S. grain stocks promised to be as low as those in the drought-ridden...
Remember Munich. Would Czechoslovakia stick to prewar democratic ways, or would she become just another Soviet satellite? That was the campaign's chief issue. The horror pictures were part of the Communist argument that Russia alone was near enough to offer protection, that the West was weak and treacherous (Munich was not forgotten). Many Czech voters agreed; but though they voted Red they would not be willing to go along with a totalitarian state on the Soviet model. The Communist electoral victory was still impressive. In the Assembly they can wield a slim majority (152 seats over 148) through...
There was not another sound as the judge intoned (in Czech first and then in German) the eight-minute-long verdict of the people of Czechoslovakia against Karl Hermann Frank, the Sudeten German leader in the prewar Czech Parliament and later the Nazi "protector." Silently the people listened to the charges: treason, the murder of 300,000 Czechs, propagation of Naziism, and "co-responsibility" for the destruction of Lidice...
...have a Communist Minister of Production in order to cut off the electric current. Thorez' wife retorted that two factors, lack of coal and the drought, had caused the power shortage. Production Minister Marcel Paul had spurred the miners on to increase coal production until it exceeded the prewar level. Then salty Jeannette Vermeersch added with a wink: "And, comrades, we don't believe in God-but it rained. Today there is plenty of current...
...tall, blond Father Franz Stock, prewar head of the German Catholic Church in Paris. During the Nazi occupation he served as priest in prisons and hospitals, and administered last rites to thousands of Frenchmen executed by the Nazis. He visited them in their cells, rode with them to their execution, buried them, sent their belongings to their families...