Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The great mystery story that started with the Moscow purge trials of 1936-38 had not yet been solved. In spite of a thousand explanations, the free world still had little clue as to how Stalin's agents broke or bent the wills of their own comrades, of Mindszenty...
The words spoken by the pastors in Sofia last week seemed to be echoes of the Moscow purge trial confessions, as if both had been written by the same diabolical playwright. To understand the echoes, it was necessary to recall the originals.
In Poland, "a thorough purge is going on in all phases of Jewish life . . . Politically conscious peoples are being forced to liquidate their past, and confess to crimes they never committed. Those who are able [to do so] flee the country."
The C.I.O.'s purge of Communist-line union bosses was beginning to get rough. President Phil Murray had ordered the huge United Auto Workers to swallow up the little, leftist Farm Equipment Workers. Last week in East Moline, Ill., the first bite proved pretty indigestible.
Living Example. Then the man whose campaign slogan had been unity bluntly declared: "The Republican Party is split wide open. It has been split wide open for years, but we have tried to gloss it over." He added: "I am a living example that that doesn't work." What...