Word: pro-communist
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Married. Josef Cyrankiewicz, 36, bullet-headed, pro-Communist Polish Premier; and blonde, husky-voiced Nina Andrycz, thirtyish, who made her first big hit in The Constant Nymph and is now Warsaw's top leading lady; he for the second time, she for the first; in Warsaw...
...week's end, even the sudden rediscovery by the press that Royall is a brother-in-law of Johannes Steel, pro-Communist radio and news commentator (who married Royall's half-sister), did not delay the Senate's action on his name. Within 24 hours after his nomination reached the Hill, the Senate had confirmed his appointment...
...Bucharest apartment last week, obdurate, old (74) Juliu Maniu, leader of the opposition to pro-Communist Petru Groza's Government, sat at lunch with two friends. Unannounced, an officer of Rumania's S.S.I, (secret political police) walked in, arrested Maniu. As he departed, the S.S.I, man offered his hand to one of Maniu's friends, saying: "I suppose you don't want to shake hands with a man who is doing this?" Replied the friend: "Oh, that's all right. I'm a surgeon-I've got blood on my hands...
Empty Comfort. Even leftists had their eyes opened. Wrote France's often pro-Communist Franc-Tireur: "In this sad adventure . . . Russia has wound up creating the very [Western] bloc she wanted to avoid. . . ." Wrote London's Laborite Daily Herald: "Russia's present policy is aimed calmly and deliberately at preventing European unity...
...gala round of oratory, parades and holiday cockfights in honor of the first anniversary of Philippine independence. In Manila, President Manuel Roxas discussed his Government's political and economic progress. Said Roxas: "Organized resistance has almost ceased." To give force to his words, a battalion of Hukbalahaps, pro-Communist guerrilla fighters who have waged constant war against the government, marched past the reviewing stand...