Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four German submarines reported off Curaçao; guards strengthened around Army and Naval bases; a purge of the U. S. intelligence; quarrels in high offices.
Army. With thousands removed, imprisoned, or shot in the purge (including 213 commanders and commissars), Russian soldiers were still sufficiently bewildered at the about-face to win an explanation from Marshal Klement Vorshilov himself. Said he: military staff talks with British and French officers were broken off because Poland refused...
For Communists he reserved his most telling blows: "Was there ever a more awful spectacle in the whole history of the world than is unfolded by the agony of Russia . . . devoured by vermin, racked by pestilence, deprived of hope?" Russia Winston Churchill saw as not only "a wounded Russia, but...
Last month the long-awaited showdown began. General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano whose radio broadcast was a nightly comic turn during the War, made a speech declaring that the Army, which had done the fighting, should also do the ruling-not gun-shy, upstart politicians (like Señor Serrano...
While dealing out posts to his brother-in-law, the Generalissimo did not altogether forget himself. By subordinating the power of the Council of Ministers in cases of emergency he liberalized his power to rule by decree and abolished the office of Vice President. When the purge was over there...