Word: proconsuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Communist Party Central Committee. Vice Minister of Justice Zenon Kliszko and Minister of Construction Spychalski were also kicked out. All were denounced as "masked enemies, provocateurs, saboteurs and traitors"-a few of the epithets currently applied to Titoists by true-blue Stalinists. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, new Soviet proconsul for Poland (TIME, Nov. 21), was elected to the purified Central Committee...
...American correspondents had their own final drill with him. Leaning comfortably against the upholstery of his private railroad car, General Clay looked back on his four grinding, controversial years as a 20th Century proconsul. A unified Germany, he thought, is now inevitable, but there must be another five to 20 years of gradually tapering Allied occupation. As for the Russians, he warned that an East-West agreement on Berlin should not be confused with "a permanent solution to the struggle between communism and democracy." Said Clay: "I don't think that implies war. War would never solve...
...Proconsul Verres, a grasping fellow who rose to the governorship of Sicily, "possessed probably the finest eye for works of art of anyone in the ancient world...
...replaced them all. The power of the aristocrats, the industrialists, the royal playboys and the royal concubines has passed into her hands. She runs Rumania. Her title is Foreign Minister, but her job is that of Stalin's proconsul. Of the seven telephones on her office desk one is said to be a direct line to the Kremlin. Asked if she had permission to call Stalin at any hour, Ana answered: "When the occasion arises, I can reach...
...Chinese tragedy that distant Sinkiang had been misruled, from 1928 until 1944, by notorious Warlord Sheng Shih-tsai. Nominally as the proconsul of the Chinese Central Government, General Sheng administered a private terror that brought death to at least 50,000 people in 16 years...